CVE-2021-20265

CVE-2021-20265 affects the Linux kernel: a memory-leak/DoS bug in unix_stream_recvmsg when a signal is pending can exhaust memory locally. Connected docs reference a fix in the upstream kernel (commit fa0dc04df259ba2df3ce1920e9690c7842f8fa4b4) and later kernel slab-leak fixes for af_unix, indicat...

CVE-2020-16119

CVE-2020-16119 is a Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP where a socket reused as a listener after release (with an attached dccps_hc_tx_ccid) can be exploited locally. Affected: Linux kernel variants affected by upstream fixes; the issue allows local escalation to execute code or ca...

CVE-2020-10742

CVE-2020-10742 : The Linux kernel vulnerability is an index buffer overflow during Direct IO writes that can cause the NFS client to crash and, in some cases, a kernel panic after a kmalloc memory allocation has a reach-out beyond the allocated buffer. The described impact includes data confident...

CVE-2008-2544

CVE-2008-2544 describes a local bypass where mounting the /proc filesystem inside a chroot can occur in read-write mode, allowing a user to bypass the chroot and gain write access to files they would not normally access. The connected documents reiterate the same description but do not provide pr...