The vulnerability of the fs/proc component in the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the fs/proc component in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to improper locking of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

sudo security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:1382 An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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, whi...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3317-1 (lxc - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in LXC, the Linux Containers userspace tools. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2015-1331 Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in LXC when creating lock files. A local attacker could...

Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1160-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IRDA did not correctly check the size of buffers. On non-x86 systems, a local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4529 Dan Rosenburg discovered that the CAN subsystem leaked kernel addresses into the /proc...

CVE-2004-2613

Unspecified vulnerability in procfs in the Linux-VServer stable branch for the 2.4 kernel before 1.23 and Linux-VServer development branch for the 2.4 kernel before 1.3.5 has unspecified impact and attack vectors, related to "write access to specific proc entries from a vserver context", a...

FreeBSD 3.4 / NetBSD 1.4.1 / OpenBSD 2.6 - '/proc' FileSystem

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/940/info Certain BSD derivative operating systems use an implantation of the /proc filesystem which is vulnerable to attack from malicious local users. This attack will gain the user root access to the host. The proc file system was originally designed...