Debian DSA-3290-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, information leaks or data corruption. - CVE-2015-1805 Red Hat discovered that the pipe iovec read and write implementations may iterate over the iovec twice but will modify...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2635-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2635-1 advisory. Xiong Zhou discovered a bug in the way the EXT4 filesystem handles fallocate zero range functionality when the page size is greater than the block size. ...

PingPongRoot

Wen Xu and wushi of KeenTeam discovered that users allowed to create ping sockets can use them to crash the system and, on 32-bit architectures, for privilege escalation. However, by default, no users on a Debian system have access to ping sockets...