PT-2017-16199

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware Workstation Pro/Player affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. This could allow unprivileged host users to escalate their...

VMware Workstation for Linux 12.5.2 build-4638234 - ALSA Configuration Host Local Privilege Escalation

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1142 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges. The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host process loads libasound, whic...

VMware Workstation ALSA Config File Local Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a vulnerability in VMware Workstation Pro and Player on Linux which allows users to escalate their privileges by using an ALSA configuration file to load and execute a shared object as root when launching a virtual machine with an attached sound card. This module has been...

VMware Patches Multiple Security Issues in Workstation

VMware fixed two bugs in its VMware Workstation late Thursday night, including an insecure library loading vulnerability and a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. The virtualization software company warned of the issues Thursday night in a security advisory VMSA-2017-0009. Jann Horn, a securi...

KLA11019 Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware products

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in VMware Workstation Pro and VMware Workstation Player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges and cause a denial of service. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. An insecure library loading vulnerability c...

VMSA-2017-0009:VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues

VMSA-2017-0009 VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2017-0009 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Workstation update addresses multiple security issues...

CVE-2016-9794

Race condition in the sndpcmperiodelapsed function in sound/core/pcmlib.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRVPCMTRIGGERSTART command...

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.14 r112924 - Unprivileged Host User to Host Kernel Privilege Escalation via ALSA config

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.14 r112924 - Unprivileged Host User to Host Kernel Privilege Escalation via ALSA config / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1141 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has a...

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.14 r112924 - Unprivileged Host User to Host Kernel Privilege Escalation via ALSA config

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1141 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged device /dev/vboxdrv and can use that to compromise the host kernel. The...

VirtualBox Unprivilege Host User To Host Kernel Privilege Escalation

VirtualBox: unprivileged host user - host kernel privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-3576 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged device /dev/vboxdrv and can use that to compromise the hos...

VirtualBox Unprivilege Host User To Host Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits VirtualBox: unprivileged host user - host kernel privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-3576 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged devi...

VirtualBox: unprivileged host user -> host kernel privesc via ALSA config（ CVE-2017-3576）

This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged device /dev/vboxdrv and can use that to compromise the host kernel. The issue is that, for VMs with ALSA audio, the privileged VM host process...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-2017-431)

This update for pidgin fixes the following issues : Feature update : - Update to GNOME 3.20.2 fate318572. Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-2640: Fix an out of bounds memory read in purplemarkupunescapeentity. boo1028835 - CVE-2014-3698: remote information leak via crafted XMPP message boo902408...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.32-696.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696 - net dccp: fix freeing skb too early for IPV6RECVPKTINFO Hannes Frederic Sowa 1424628 CVE-2017-6074 2.6.32-695 - block nvme: Dont poll device being removed David Milburn 1422521 2.6.32-694 - fs posixacl: Clear SGID bit when setting file...

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...

OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0006)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - nvme: Limit command retries Ashok Vairavan Orabug: 25342947 - tcp: fix use after free in tcpxmitretransmitqueue Eric Dumazet Orabug: 25374376 CVE-2016-6828 - ALSA: pcm : Call killfasync in stream lock...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0005)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - net: avoid signed overflows for SOSND|RCVBUFFORCE Eric Dumazet Orabug: 25203623 CVE-2016-9793 - nvme: Limit command retries Ashok Vairavan Orabug: 25374794 - tcp: fix use after free in...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0004)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - KEYS: Fix short sprintf buffer in /proc/keys show function David Howells Orabug: 25306361 CVE-2016-7042 - nvme: Limit command retries Keith Busch Orabug: 25374751 - fs/proc/taskmmu.c: fix mmaccess mod...