CVE-2011-1478

CVE-2011-1478 affects the Linux kernel’s GRO napi_reuse_skb path: it does not reset certain structure members in net/core/dev.c, enabling a remote attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference via a malformed VLAN frame and cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is present in kernels befor...

CVE-2010-4263

The CVE-2010-4263 issue involves the Intel igb driver (drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c) in the Linux kernel and its handling of VLAN-tagged frames when SR-IOV and promiscuous mode are enabled but no VLANs are registered. In kernels before 2.6.34, processing such frames could trigger a NULL pointer der...

CVE-2011-0695

CVE-2011-0695 is a race condition in the Linux kernel’s InfiniBand driver (cm_work_handler in drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c) on 2.6.x. The issue allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (panic) by issuing an InfiniBand request while other request handlers are active, causing an inva...

CVE-2011-0714

CVE-2011-0714 affects the Linux kernel 2.6.32 as patched for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, specifically involving the RPC server sockets functionality. The use-after-free vulnerability is triggered in a Red Hat patch related to lockd and the svc_xprt_received path, allowing remote attackers to cras...

CVE-2010-3086

CVE-2010-3086 affects the Linux kernel (pre-2.6.25) via futex.h: exception fixup code replaced LOCK_PREFIX with a no-op, enabling local users to trigger a page fault and cause a denial of service (panic). Public advisories (e.g., MiracleLinux AXSA-2010-500:18 and OSV/RHSA entries) reference this ...

CVE-2010-4162

CVE-2010-4162: Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 contains multiple integer overflows in fs/bio.c that allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted device ioctl to a SCSI device. MiracleLinux AXSA:2011-57 lists CVE-2010-4162 among affected kernel issues and references a f...

CVE-2011-1170

CVE-2011-1170 affects the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.39 where net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c does not place the expected null terminator at the end of certain string values. This can allow a local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN to craft a request and read the argument to the modprobe process, potentiall...

CVE-2011-2689

The vulnerability CVE-2011-2689 affects the Linux kernel’s gfs2_fallocate path (fs/gfs2/file.c). It occurs in versions before 3.0-rc1, where the size of a chunk allocation may not be a multiple of the filesystem block size. This can allow a local user to trigger a denial of service and system cra...

CVE-2010-4525

CVE-2010-4525: The Linux kernel up to 2.6.34.y omits initialization of kvm_vcpu_events->interrupt.pad, enabling local attackers to read potentially sensitive data from kernel stack memory via unspecified vectors. The affected component is kernel/KVM (Linux kernel 2.6.33/2.6.34.y). Multiple adv...

CVE-2011-2497

CVE-2011-2497 is a Linux kernel Bluetooth L2CAP underflow/overflow issue. The vulnerability arises from an integer underflow in l2cap_config_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c, enabling remote attackers to trigger a heap memory corruption or buffer overflow via a small command-size value in an L2C...

CVE-2011-1598

CVE-2011-1598 affects the Linux kernel’s CAN subsystem: the bcm_release function in net/can/bcm.c does not validate a socket data structure, enabling a local user to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and cause a denial of service. The affected version range is kernel 2.6.39-rc6 and earlier. Reso...

CVE-2011-1771

CVE-2011-1771 affects the Linux kernel up to version 2.6.38, specifically the cifs_close function in fs/cifs/file.c. If a local user opens a CIFS file with the O_DIRECT flag, it can trigger a NULL pointer dereference (and BUG), causing a denial of service or unspecified impact. Mitigation: upgrad...

CVE-2011-1016

CVE-2011-1016 concerns the Linux kernel Radeon GPU drivers and their DRM subsystem. The affected component is the Radeon GPU driver (radeon/kms) in kernels before 2.6.38-rc5, where data related to the AA resolve registers was not properly validated. This could allow a local user to write to arbit...

CVE-2011-1748

CVE-2011-1748 affects the Linux kernel: the raw_release function in net/can/raw.c fails to validate a socket data structure, enabling local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference (denial of service) or possibly other impact via a crafted release operation. Affected versions are the kernel be...

CVE-2010-4529

CVE-2010-4529 refers to an integer underflow in the irda_getsockopt function (net/irda/af_irda.c) of the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.37 on non-x86 platforms. This underflow could allow a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory via an IRLMP_ENUMDEVICES gets...

CVE-2011-0710

CVE-2011-0710 affects the Linux kernel on the s390 platform. The function task_show_regs in arch/s390/kernel/traps.c permits a local user to read the registers of an arbitrary process by reading a status file under /proc, for kernels before 2.6.38-rc4-next-20110216. The connected MiracleLinux adv...

CVE-2011-1173

CVE-2011-1173 affects the Linux kernel on x86_64 prior to 2.6.39. The vulnerability is in the econet_sendmsg function (net/econet/af_econet.c) and allows a remote attacker to read uninitialized data from kernel stack memory via an Acorn Universal Networking (AUN) packet, enabling information disc...

CVE-2011-1012

CVE-2011-1012 affects the Linux kernel, in particular the LDM partition handling. The flaw lies in ldm_parse_vmdb in fs/partitions/ldm.c, which does not validate the VBLK size in the VMDB structure of an LDM partition table. A crafted partition table can trigger a divide-by-zero and cause a kerne...

CVE-2010-3448

CVE-2010-3448 affects the Linux kernel’s ThinkPad ThinkPad ACPI driver (drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c) on ThinkPad systems using X.Org prior to 2.6.34. The issue allows a local attacker to access and manipulate the video output control state without proper restriction, enabling a denial of...

CVE-2010-4805

CVE-2010-4805 affects the Linux kernel socket backlog handling in net/core/sock.c prior to 2.6.35, allowing remote DoS via large traffic (backlog management related to sk_add_backlog and sk_rmem_alloc). The entry notes this vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4251. The conn...

CVE-2011-1581

CVE-2011-1581 affects the Linux kernel bonding driver (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c). When a network device with many receive queues is installed and the default tx_queues is used, the code fails to properly constrain queue indexes, enabling a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or sy...

CVE-2011-0463

CVE-2011-0463 affects the OCFS2 code path in the Linux kernel. The issue is in the function ocfs2_prepare_page_for_write where holes crossing page boundaries are not handled correctly, enabling a local user to read potentially sensitive data from uninitialized disk locations. The description indi...

CVE-2011-2700

CVE-2011-2700 affects the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.39.4 on the N900 platform, where multiple buffer overflows in si4713_write_econtrol_string (drivers/media/radio/si4713-i2c.c) can be triggered by a crafted s_ext_ctrls operation using V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_PS_NAME or V4L2_CID_RDS_TX_RADIO_TEXT. The is...

CVE-2011-1169

CVE-2011-1169 affects the Linux kernel before 2.6.38.1 via an array index error in the AudioScience HPI driver (sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c) that can memory-corrupt local kernel data and may allow local privilege escalation. Connected advisories (SUSE/Ubuntu) confirm the root cause and impact, wit...

CVE-2011-2184

The CVE-2011-2184 entry concerns Linux kernel prior to 2.6.39.1 where key_replace_session_keyring fails to initialize a structure member, enabling local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and system crash via KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT in keyctl. This is a distinct issue from CVE-2010-2960...

CVE-2011-2695

CVE-2011-2695 involves multiple off-by-one errors in the Linux kernel ext4 subsystem (before 3.0-rc5). Local users can cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by performing a write operation to a sparse file in extent format where the block number equals the maximum 32-bit unsigned va...

CVE-2011-2928

CVE-2011-2928 affects the Linux kernel prior to 3.1-rc3, specifically the befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c. The flaw does not validate the length attribute of long symlinks on a malformed Be filesystem, enabling a local attacker to trigger an incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS,...

CVE-2010-4256

CVE-2010-4256 affects the Linux kernel: the pipe_fcntl code in fs/pipe.c before 2.6.37 may misidentify named pipes, enabling a local user to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call. The issue is tracked across multiple advisories (e.g., Ubuntu USN-1083-1, RH advisories) and was f...

CVE-2011-0709

CVE-2011-0709 affects the Linux kernel’s networking bridge code: the br_mdb_ip_get function in net/bridge/br_multicast.c is vulnerable when there is no multicast table, allowing remote attackers to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash the system via IGMP traffic. Affected: Linux kernel ve...

CVE-2011-2534

CVE-2011-2534 : A buffer overflow in the Linux kernel’s clusterip_proc_write (net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c) exists before 2.6.39. A crafted write operation that includes non-terminated string data could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service and potentially other impact. The ro...

CVE-2011-0999

CVE-2011-0999 affects the Linux kernel (mm/huge_memory.c) up to 2.6.38-rc5. A local attacker could trigger creation of a transparent huge page (THP) during a temporary stack for an exec() call, enabling memory exhaustion and potential other impact. The issue is caused by not preventing THP creati...

CVE-2011-1747

CVE-2011-1747 affects the Linux kernel AGP subsystem (2.6.38.5 and earlier). The vulnerability stems from inadequate restriction of memory allocations for AGPIOC_RESERVE and AGPIOC_ALLOCATE ioctls in the AGP driver, allowing a local attacker with access to the video subsystem to induce memory exh...