Memory Corruption

Linux kernel is vulnerable to memory corruption attacks. This occurs in the fs/timerfd.c file which allows a local user to cause a kernel list corruption or use-after-free via simultaneous operations with a file descriptor which leverage improper mightcancel queuing. An unprivileged local user...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3308-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5266 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3304-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5263 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

CVE-2017-10661

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.11-rc1 in 'fs/timerfd.c' file which allows a local user to cause a kernel list corruption or use-after-free via simultaneous operations with a file descriptor which leverage improper 'mightcancel' queuing. An unprivileged local user...