Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel 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 th...

[ASA-201610-16] linux-grsec: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-16 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-24 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux-grsec Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-grsec befor...

Linux kernel 2.6.22 < 3.9 elevation of privilege vulnerability (Dirty COW)

Summary A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. All the information we have so far is included in this page. The bug has existed since around 2.6.22 released in 2007 and was fixed on Oct...

[ASA-201610-14] linux: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-14 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-22 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux before version...

[ASA-201610-11] linux-lts: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201610-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-10-21 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-5195 Package : linux-lts Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-lts before...

Linux kernel memory subsystem copy on write mechanism contains a race condition vulnerability

Overview The Linux kernel since version 2.6.22 contains a race condition in the way the copy on write mechanism is handled by the memory subsystem, which may be leveraged locally to gain root privileges. Description CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchonization...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-757) (Dirty COW)

A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on t...

Security Advisory 0026

Security Advisory 0026 PDF Date: October 21st, 2016 Version: 1.0 Revision | Date | Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | October 21st, 2016 | Initial release Arista Products vulnerability report for CVE-2016-5195 On October 21st 2016, information was released about a security advisory for a race condition...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their...

CVE-2016-8660

The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service fdatasync failure and system hang by using the vfs syscall group in the trinity program, related to a "page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data implementation."...

CVE-2016-8660

The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service fdatasync failure and system hang by using the vfs syscall group in the trinity program, related to a "page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data implementation."...

Information disclosure

The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service fdatasync failure and system hang by using the vfs syscall group in the trinity program, related to a "page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data implementation."...

CVE-2016-8660

The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 4.4 and later allows local users to cause a denial of service fdatasync failure and system hang by using the vfs syscall group in the 'trinity' program, as a result of a page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data implementation...

Cisco NX-OS SSH Connection Negotiation Remote Command Execution (cisco-sa-20161005-nxaaa)

The remote Cisco device is running a version of NX-OS that is affected by a remote command execution vulnerability in the SSH subsystem due to improper processing of parameters passed during the negotiation of an SSH connection. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to bypass...

Android Qualcomm MDSS Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-09484)

Android is an open source operating system based on Linux. A security vulnerability in the drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdssmdppp.c file in the Qualcomm MDSS driver for Android allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to build malicious applications that can crash the application...

Android Qualcomm QDSP6v2 Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-09482)

Android is an open source operating system based on Linux. A security vulnerability in the sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-ds2- dap-config.c file in the Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver for Android allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to build malicious applications that can crash the applicatio...

Android Linux kernel information disclosure vulnerability (CNVD-2016-09459)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and the Linux kernel is one of the kernels used by Linux. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c file in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.0.3...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3097-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3098-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3098-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3098-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCP retransmit...