USN-2946-1 linux vulnerabilities

Venkatesh Pottem discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CXGB3 driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-8812 Xiaofei Rex Guo discovered a timing side channel vulnerability in the Linux...

The vulnerability of the glibc implementation library, which allows attackers to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the ptchown function in the glibc execution library arises from the lack of namespace checking related to the file descriptor passed as an argument. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to record keyboard input, replace data, or potentially increase their...

Apple OS X IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apple OS X is an operating system from Apple. Apple OS X suffers from an elevation of privilege vulnerability that stems from the IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor interface failing to perform integer overflow detection on user-supplied input, allowing a local attacker to exploit the vulnerability to...

PT-2016-2811 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5.1 Description: The issue is related to the iowarrior probe function in the Linux kernel, which contains an error in handling USB device descriptors. This can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of...

FreeBSD Kernel amd64_set_ldt Heap Overflow Vulnerability

FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system. An integer signature error in the amd64setldt function in the kernel code of versions prior to FreeBSD 10.2-RELENG can lead to a kernel heap overflow, which can cause a system crash in a local attacker...

USN-2929-1 linux vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

CVE-2016-2856

ptchown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10...

Design/Logic Flaw

ptchown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10...

CVE-2016-2856

ptchown in the glibc package before 2.19-18+deb8u4 on Debian jessie; the elibc package before 2.15-0ubuntu10.14 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and before 2.19-0ubuntu6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; and the glibc package before 2.21-0ubuntu4.2 on Ubuntu 15.10 and before 2.23-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10...

Linux mct_u232 Null Pointer Dereference

OS-S Security Advisory 2016-08 Linux mctu232 Nullpointer Dereference Date: March 4th, 2016 Authors: Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke, Ralf Spenneberg CVE: not yet assigned CVSS: 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Title: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS – RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB devi...

Linux cdc_acm Null Pointer Dereference

OS-S Security Advisory 2016-06 Linux cdcacm Nullpointer Dereference Date: March 4th, 2016 Authors: Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke, Ralf Spenneberg CVE: not yet assigned CVSS: 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Title: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS – RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB devic...

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS / RHEL 7.1) - visor 'treo_attach' Nullpointer Dereference

OS-S Security Advisory 2016-10 Linux visor treoattach Nullpointer Dereference Date: March 4th, 2016 Authors: Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke, Ralf Spenneberg CVE: CVE-2016-2782 CVSS: 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Title: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS â?? RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid...

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS RHEL 7.1) - visor treo_attach Nullpointer Dereference

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 CentOS RHEL 7.1 - visor treoattach Nullpointer Dereference OS-S Security Advisory 2016-10 Linux visor treoattach Nullpointer Dereference Date: March 4th, 2016 Authors: Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke, Ralf Spenneberg CVE: CVE-2016-2782 CVSS: 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C...

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS / RHEL 7.1) - 'cdc_acm' Nullpointer Dereference

OS-S Security Advisory 2016-06 Linux cdcacm Nullpointer Dereference Date: March 4th, 2016 Authors: Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke, Ralf Spenneberg CVE: not yet assigned CVSS: 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C Title: Local RedHat Enterprise Linux DoS â?? RHEL 7.1 Kernel crashes on invalid USB...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3503-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, information leak or data loss. CVE-2013-4312 Tetsuo Handa discovered that users can use pipes queued on local Unix sockets to allocate an unfair share of kernel memory,...

Fedora 21 : lxdm-0.4.1-10.fc21 (2015-7766c0d939)

It is found that lxdm does not close file descriptor for log file althouhg it should. Also session started via lxdm can allow any local user to connect X. This new rpm should fix these issues. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedor...

Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.1-9.fc23 (2015-28cfce6702)

ui/vnc: limit clientcuttext msg payload size CVE-2015-5239 1259504, e1000: Avoid infinite loop in processing transmit descriptor CVE-2015-6815 1260224, net: add checks to validate ring buffer pointers CVE-2015-5279 1263278, net: avoid infinite loop when receiving packets CVE-2015-5278 1263281, qe...

Updated asterisk packages fix CVE-2016-2316

Updated asterisk packages fix security vulnerability: chansip in Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.21.1, when the timert1 sip.conf configuration is set to a value greater than 1245, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service file descriptor consumption via vectors related to large...

DLA-439-1 linux-2.6 - security update

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CVE-2016-2550

The Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging incorrect tracking of descriptor ownership and sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an...