USN-1767-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrew Cooper of Citrix reported a Xen stack corruption in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged user in a 32bit PVOPS guest can cause the guest kernel to crash, or operate erroneously. CVE-2013-0190 A failure to validate input was discovered in the Linux kernel's Xen netback network backend driver. ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1745-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Null pointer dereference

The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter...

CVE-2013-1774

The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter...

CVE-2013-1774

The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter...

USN-1745-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator. CVE-2013-0871 A flaw was discovered in the Edgeort USB serial converter...

kernel: drivers/usb/serial/mos*.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

The USB subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to TIOCGICOUNT ioctl calls, and the 1 mos7720ioctl function in...

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-194.el5 - net mlx4: pass attributes down to vlan interfaces Doug Ledford 573098 - block cfq-iosched: fix sequential read perf regression Jeff Moyer 571818 2.6.18-193.el5 - fs gfs2: locking fix for potential dos Steven Whitehouse 572390 CVE-2010-0727 - acpi powermeter: avoid oops on driver...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2007:078)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : When SELinux hooks are enabled, the kernel could allow a local user to cause a DoS crash via a malformed file stream that triggers a NULL pointer derefernece CVE-2006-6056. Multiple buffer overflows in the 1 read and 2...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:151)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Prior to and including 2.6.16-rc2, when running on x8664 systems with preemption enabled, local users can cause a DoS oops via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps CVE-2006-1066. Prior to 2.6.16, a...

Debian DSA-1184-2 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities

This advisory covers the S/390 components of the recent security update for the Linux 2.6.8 kernel that were missing due to technical problems. For reference, please see the text of the original advisory. Several security related problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel which may lead to...

Fedora Core 1 : kernel-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl (2004-251)

Paul Starzetz discovered flaws in the Linux kernel when handling file offset pointers. These consist of invalid conversions of 64 to 32-bit file offset pointers and possible race conditions. A local unprivileged user could make use of these flaws to access large portions of kernel memory. The...