security flaw

The Linux kernel before 2.6.11 on the Itanium IA64 platform has certain "ptrace corner cases" that allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via crafted syscalls, possibly related to MCA/INIT, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1761...

CVE-2005-0091

Unknown vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch, when using the hugemem kernel, allows local users to read and write to arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via certain syscalls...

CVE-2005-0091

CVE-2005-0091 is described across connected records as a vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel with the hugemem patch. The issue allows a local attacker to read and write arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via certain syscalls on systems using the hugemem configuration (...

CVE-2004-1323

CVE-2004-1323 affects NetBSD prior to 2.0. The issue arises in the compat subsystem where multiple syscalls (notably xxx_sys_kill and xxx_sys_sigaction) can be misused by passing a large signal number, potentially triggering a kernel crash and denial of service. The available documents consistent...

NetBSD compat subsystems privilege escalation

Some emulated syscalls do insuficcient check for arguments...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x - 'AIO_Free_Ring' Local Denial of Service

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11842/info The Linux Kernel is reported prone to a local denial of service vulnerability. It is reported that the vulnerability exists due to a failure by 'aiofreering' to handle exceptional conditions. This vulnerability requires that mmap is employed ...

Fedora Core 1 : kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl (2003-026)

The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in the error return on a concurrent fork with threaded exit which could be exploited by a user level program to crash the kernel. In addition to this bug fix, the changelog below details various other non-security fixes that have been...

Security Bulletin #00202 (i386 syscalls)

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin Bulletin Number: 00202 Date: May 15, 2001 Cross-Ref: Title: i386 syscalls The information contained in this Security Bulletin is provided "AS IS." Sun makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this Security...