Published: 10/04/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 188

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The osf_partition function in fs/partitions/osf.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.38 does not properly handle an invalid number of partitions, which might allow local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory via vectors related to partition-table parsing.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-3875 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Linux implementation of the Amateur Radio AX25 Level 2 protocol Local u ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-2524 David Howells reported an issue in the Common Internet File System (CIFS) Local users could cause ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Ubuntu Security Notice 1202-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated A local attacker could exploit this to crash ...

CWE-20 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688021 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025225 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/14 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/9 http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-02.txt http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg82737.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517050 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46878 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8189 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2240 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1204-1/

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