Linux kernel 竞争条件问题漏洞

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in versions of Linux kernel prior to 5.7.5, which stems from a contention condition in split huge pmd in mm huge memoryc, where the copy-on-writ...

Linux CoW Incorrect Access Grant Exploit

A Linux copy-on-write issue can wrongly grant write access. Linux: CoW can wrongly grant write access because of pinned references or THP bug I've stumbled over two ways in which copy-on-write of anonymous memory after fork is currently broken: Page references through the page refcount and a bug ...

PT-2020-1260 · Linux +7 · Linux Kernel +7

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.7.5 Description: The issue is related to the split huge pmd function in the mm/huge memory.c file of the Linux kernel. It involves a race condition in a THP mapcount check, which can grant unintended write...

Project Zero Discloses High-Severity Apple macOS Flaw

Researchers have disclosed what they say is a high-severity security flaw in Apple’s MacOS operating system – which has not yet been patched. The flaw gives an attacker privileges to perform malicious actions on a mounted filesystem – without the victim knowing. The Google Project Zero team...

Google Discloses Unpatched 'High-Severity' Flaw in Apple macOS Kernel

Cybersecurity researcher at Google's Project Zero division has publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploit of a high-severity security vulnerability in macOS operating system after Apple failed to release a patch within 90 days of being notified. Discovered by Project Zero researcher...

Google Discloses Unpatched 'High-Severity' Flaw in Apple macOS Kernel

Cybersecurity researcher at Google's Project Zero division has publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploit of a high-severity security vulnerability in macOS operating system after Apple failed to release a patch within 90 days of being notified. Discovered by Project Zero researcher...

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behavior #Bypass via Mount of User-Owned Filesystem Image Exploit

XNU has various interfaces that permit creating copy-on-write copies of data between processes, including out-of-line message descriptors in mach messages. It is important that the copied memory is protected against later modifications by the source process; otherwise, the source process might be...

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behavior Bypass via Mount of User-Owned Filesystem Image

XNU has various interfaces that permit creating copy-on-write copies of data between processes, including out-of-line message descriptors in mach messages. It is important that the copied memory is protected against later modifications by the source process; otherwise, the source process might be...

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behavior Bypass via Mount of User-Owned Filesystem Image

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behavior Bypass via Mount of User-Owned Filesystem Image XNU has various interfaces that permit creating copy-on-write copies of data between processes, including out-of-line message descriptors in mach messages. It is important that the copied memory is protected agains...

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behaviour Bypass via Partial-Page Truncation of File Exploit

/ XNU has various interfaces that permit creating copy-on-write copies of data between processes, including out-of-line message descriptors in mach messages. It is important that the copied memory is protected against later modifications by the source process; otherwise, the source process might ...

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behaviour Bypass via Partial-Page Truncation of File

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behaviour Bypass via Partial-Page Truncation of File / XNU has various interfaces that permit creating copy-on-write copies of data between processes, including out-of-line message descriptors in mach messages. It is important that the copied memory is protected against...

macOS XNU - Copy-on-Write Behaviour Bypass via Partial-Page Truncation of File

/ XNU has various interfaces that permit creating copy-on-write copies of data between processes, including out-of-line message descriptors in mach messages. It is important that the copied memory is protected against later modifications by the source process; otherwise, the source process might ...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Linux kernel privesc: Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195)

Summary Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition when handling the copy-on-write COW breakage of private read-only memory mappings by the memory subsystem. IBM Security Guardium has provided a fix for this vulnerability...

kernel: pmd can become dirty without going through a COW cycle

A flaw was found in the patches used to fix the 'dirtycow' vulnerability CVE-2016-5195. An attacker, able to run local code, can exploit a race condition in transparent huge pages to modify usually read-only huge pages...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel regression (USN-3509-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3509-3 advisory. USN-3509-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Unfortunately, it also introduced a regression that prevented the Ceph network filesyst...

USN-3509-3: Linux kernel regression

USN-3509-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Unfortunately, it also introduced a regression that prevented the Ceph network filesystem from being used. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Mohamed Ghannam...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3507-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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-3507-2 linux-gcp vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3507-2: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3511-1 linux-azure vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-16939 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not...