Linux Kernel 'splice()' System Call Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the open source operating system Linux. A local denial of service vulnerability exists in the Linux Kernel 'splice' System Call, which allows attackers to exploit this vulnerability to launch denial of service attacks...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150128)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation validated INIT chunks when performing Address Configuration Change ASCONF. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

In-depth understanding of Google and Microsoft's controversial vulnerability: NtApphelpCacheControl vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Causes:the The Google Project Zero team of budding member James Forshaw in 9 month 3 day 0 to Microsoft submitted the name“Windows: Elevation of Privilege inahcache. sys/NtApphelpCacheControl”security issues, and in Google's vulnerability disclosure period 9 0 days after, that is, 2 0 1 4 years 1...

Sitecom-MD-25x

Exploit Title: Sitecom MD-253 and MD-254 Network Storage Reverse Shell Exploit Date: 09/11/12 Exploit Author: Mattijs van Ommeren mattijs at alcyon dot nl Vendor Homepage: http://www.sitecom.com Software Link: http://www.sitecom.com/download/5012/SitecomNas.2.4.17.bin Version: 2.4.17 and below...

CVE-2014-9644

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salgname field, as demonstrated by the vfataes expression, a different vulnerability than...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2014-3107)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3107 advisory. - isofs: Fix unbounded recursion when processing relocated directories Jan Kara Orabug: 20224060 CVE-2014-5471 CVE-2014-5472 Tenable has extracted...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to fix security issues and bugs: Security issues fixed: CVE-2014-9322: A local privilege escalation in the x8664 32bit compatibility signal handling was fixed, which could be used by local attackers to crash the machine or execute code. CVE-2014-9090: The...

CVE-2014-8133

arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage TLS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted application that makes a...

CVE-2014-8133

arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage TLS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted application that makes a...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-455)

The sctpprocessparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 The pivotroot...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9090

The dodoublefault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a modifyldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn32 i...

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The dodoublefault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a modifyldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn32 i...

CVE-2014-9090

The dodoublefault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a modifyldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn32 i...

CVE-2014-9090

The dodoublefault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a modifyldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn32 i...

CVE-2014-9090

The dodoublefault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a modifyldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn32 i...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0772)

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which...

Tor 0.2.5.10 - Anonymity Online (Tor 0.2.3.x is deprecated!)

Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series. It adds several new security features, including improved denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux requires seccomp2. The controller protocol...

Updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in the mechanism wpacli and hostapdcli use for executing action scripts. An unsanitized string received from a remote device can be passed to a system call resulting in arbitrary command execution under the privileges of the wpacli/hostapdcli process which may be root in...

SUSE-SU-2015:0792-1 Recommended update for coreutils

This update for coreutils provides the following fixes and enhancements: cp1 could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies. This could happen with a very fragmented and sparse input file, on file systems supporting filemap extent scanning. bnc892862 Improve ls1 efficiency on lar...