Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes, Google Security Team reported that Kernels <= 2.6.18.8 are vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference issue when using MSGMORE on udp sockets.

Fixed upstream already by: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e0c14f49d6b393179f423abbac47f85618d3d46

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team for responsibly reporting this flaw.

Description of problem: Reported by Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes. The SOCKOPSWRAP macro from include/linux/net.h doesn't initialise the sendpage operation in the protoops structure correctly. Leading to a kernel NULL pointer dereference, and thus a local privilege escalation.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team for responsibly reporting this flaw.

Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc//fd/ pathname.