USN-3082-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Chiachih Wu, Yuan-Tsung Lo, and Xuxian Jiang discovered that the legacy ABI for ARM OABI had incomplete access checks for epollwait2 and semtimedop2. A local attacker could use this to possibly execute arbitrary code...

Null pointer dereference

arm-wt-22k/libsrc/easmdls.c in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-09-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference, and device hang or reboot via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 29770686...

x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When emulating HVM instructions, Xen uses a small i-cache for fetches from guest memory. The code that handles cache misses does not check if the address from which it fetched lies within the cache before blindly writing to it. As such it is possible for the guest to overwrite...

[SECURITY] [DLA 609-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.2.81-2 CVE ID : CVE-2016-3857 CVE-2016-4470 CVE-2016-5696 CVE-2016-5829 CVE-2016-6136 CVE-2016-6480 CVE-2016-6828 CVE-2016-7118 Debian Bug : 827561 This update fixes the CVEs described below. CVE-2016-3857 Chiachih Wu reported two bugs in the ARM OABI compatibility lay...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a perpetrator to obtain confidential information

The vulnerability of the arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/ultrasound/usf.c file of Qualcomm’s Android operating system is related to insufficient checking of input parameters. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to obtain confidential information through a specially created...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability in the Linux kernel version up to 3.11 on ARM-based Android platforms is related to improper handling of user space access to the TPIDRURW register. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to enhance their privileges through a specially created application...

Dynamic Instrumentation Tool Platform: DynamoRIO

Dynamic Instrumentation Tool Platform DynamoRIO is a runtime code manipulation system that supports code transformations on any part of a program, while it executes. DynamoRIO exports an interface for building dynamic tools for a wide variety of uses: program analysis and understanding, profiling...

Fedora 24 : chromium (2016-e9798eaaa3)

On 2016-08-04 Google released Chrome 52.0.2743.116 which fixes at least 8 security issues: CVE-2016-5141, CVE-2016-5142, CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5140, CVE-2016-5145, CVE-2016-5143 and CVE-2016-5144. Additionally, this update : - Splits libmedia and libffmpeg into the libs-media subpackage, so tha...

Linux kernel elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-06287)

The Linux kernel, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States and used by the operating system Linux, is an open-source, free, and most widely ported operating system kernel. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in versions of Linux kernel prior to 3.11 on ARM platforms,...

Android on Nexus Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

Android on Nexus 5 and 7 is an open source Linux-based operating system for the Nexus 5 and 7 smartphones developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Linux kernel on ARM platforms is the kernel used in the operating system Linux, which runs on the ARM chipset, released by the Linux...

CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2014-9870

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and...

CVE-2014-9870

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9870

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and...

CVE-2014-9870

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and...

Code injection

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

Code injection

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and...