CVE-2017-5967

The time subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.9.9, when CONFIGTIMERSTATS is enabled, allows local users to discover real PID values as distinguished from PID values inside a PID namespace by reading the /proc/timerlist file, related to the printtimer function in kernel/time/timerlist.c and the...

CVE-2017-5967

The time subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.9.9, when CONFIGTIMERSTATS is enabled, allows local users to discover real PID values as distinguished from PID values inside a PID namespace by reading the /proc/timerlist file, related to the printtimer function in kernel/time/timerlist.c and the...

Attacking the Windows NVIDIA Driver

Posted by Oliver Chang Modern graphic drivers are complicated and provide a large promising attack surface for EoPs and sandbox escapes from processes that have access to the GPU e.g. the Chrome GPU process. In this blog post we’ll take a look at attacking the NVIDIA kernel mode Windows drivers,...

Google Android kernel file subsystem elevation of privilege vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google Inc. and the Open Handheld Consortium. A security vulnerability in the kernel file subsystem in Android on several Google devices allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to elevate privileges through special...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the Android operating system’s kernel performance management subsystem is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

Vulnerability in Intel® RealSense™ Web Component allows authenticated users to elevate privileges via updater subsystem

Summary: The vulnerability allows a potentially malicious 3rd party to gain the highest possible elevation of privilege level in the Operating System. Description: The vulnerability allows a potentially malicious 3rd party to gain the highest possible elevation of privilege in the Operating Syste...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3190-1)

Mikulas Patocka discovered that the asynchronous multibuffer cryptographic daemon mcryptd in the Linux kernel did not properly handle being invoked with incompatible algorithms. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10147 It was discovered that a...

CVE-2017-3822

A vulnerability in the logging subsystem of the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Firepower Device Manager FDM could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to add arbitrary entries to the audit log. This vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software versions 6.1.x on the...

CVE-2017-2602

jenkins before versions 2.44, 2.32.2 is vulnerable to an improper blacklisting of the Pipeline metadata files in the agent-to-master security subsystem. This could allow metadata files to be written to by malicious agents SECURITY-358...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a buffer overflow.

The vulnerability of the external memory subsystem in the Android operating system arises due to buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to trigger a buffer overflow due to incorrect parameters in the event-handling responses of the RPMB comman...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

CVE-2017-0404

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel sound subsystem could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

Sophos Web Appliance 4.2.1.3 Remote Command Injection

Critical Start security expert Russell Sanford discovered and reported two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the Sophos Web Appliance in December of 2016. The vulnerabilities, documented under CVE-2016-9553, allow the remote compromise of the appliance's underlining Linux subsystem. The...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0267-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5260 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0245-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5257 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have...

SUSE-SU-2017:0245-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 16 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5257 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have...

RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2017:0091)

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to gain unauthorized access to memory

The vulnerability of the Page Table subsystem configuration in the Android operating system arises due to errors in the authentication process. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an intruder, operating locally, to gain unauthorized access to supervisor memory...

kernel: Use-after-free in the recvmmsg exit path

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the kernel's socket recvmmsg subsystem. This may allow remote attackers to corrupt memory and may allow execution of arbitrary code. This corruption takes place during the error handling routines within sysrecvmmsg function...