USN-1167-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Aristide Fattori and Roberto Paleari reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of IPv4 icmp packets. A remote user could exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-1927 Goldwyn Rodrigues discovered that the OCFS2 filesystem did not correctly clear memory when writing certain file...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1160-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4529 Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc...

USN-1160-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4529 Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc...

Stack overflow

The econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x8664 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packet...

CVE-2011-1173

The econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x8664 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packet...

CVE-2011-1173

The econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the x8664 platform allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading uninitialized data in the ah field of an Acorn Universal Networking AUN packet...

kvm: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device...

kernel: bt sco_conninfo infoleak

The scosockgetsockoptold function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the SCOCONNINFO option...

RHEL 6 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel (RHSA-2011:0542)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0542 advisory. - kvm: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: reading uninitialized stack memory CVE-2010-3881 - kernel: unlimited socket backlog DoS CVE-2010-4251,...

kvm: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : apr (MDVSA-2011:084)

It was discovered that the aprfnmatch function used an unconstrained recursion when processing patterns with the '' wildcard. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using this function, which also accepted untrusted input as a pattern for matching such as an httpd server using th...

apr security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:0507 Updated apr packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: apr security update

Updated apr packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

kernel: xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1

The xfsfsgeometry function in fs/xfs/xfsfsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRYV1 ioctl call...

kernel: xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1

The xfsfsgeometry function in fs/xfs/xfsfsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRYV1 ioctl call...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-71.24.1.el6 - fs Revert 'fs inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure' Eric Paris 656831 656832 CVE-2010-4250 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6 - x86 Revert 'x86 mtrr: Assume SYSCFGTom2ForceMemTypeWB exists on all future AMD CPUs' Frank Arnold 683813 652208 2.6.32-71.22.1.el6 - rebuild...

CVE-2011-1082

fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 places epoll file descriptors within other epoll data structures without properly checking for 1 closed loops or 2 deep chains, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock or stack memory consumption via a crafted application tha...

Code injection

fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 places epoll file descriptors within other epoll data structures without properly checking for 1 closed loops or 2 deep chains, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock or stack memory consumption via a crafted application tha...

Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1090-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1090-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10901.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1090-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

CVE-2011-0711

The xfsfsgeometry function in fs/xfs/xfsfsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRYV1 ioctl call...