Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3641-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3641-1 advisory. Nick Peterson discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle debug exceptions following a MOV/POP to SS instruction. A local attack...

RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2018:1355)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1355 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

USN-3641-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USN-3641-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Nick Peterson discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle debug exceptions following a MOV/POP to SS...

USN-3641-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nick Peterson discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle debug exceptions following a MOV/POP to SS instruction. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. This issue only affected the amd64 architecture. CVE-2018-8897 Andy Lutomirski discovered that...

kernel: ptrace() incorrect error handling leads to corruption and DoS

An address corruption flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel built with hardware breakpoint CONFIGHAVEHWBREAKPOINT support. While modifying a h/w breakpoint via 'modifyuserhwbreakpoint' routine, an unprivileged user/process could use this flaw to crash the system kernel resulting in DoS OR to...

kernel: ptrace() incorrect error handling leads to corruption and DoS

An address corruption flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel built with hardware breakpoint CONFIGHAVEHWBREAKPOINT support. While modifying a h/w breakpoint via 'modifyuserhwbreakpoint' routine, an unprivileged user/process could use this flaw to crash the system kernel resulting in DoS OR to...

Linux Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-10153)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Linux Kernel suffers from a ptrace error handling denial of service vulnerability. A local user can exploit this...

CVE-2018-0272

A vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer SSL Engine of Cisco Firepower System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling while processing SSL traffic. An attacker could exploit this...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: Missing length check of payload in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c:sctpmakechunk function allows denial of service: An error in the "sctpmakechunk" function net/sctp/smmakechunk.c when handling SCTP, packet length can be exploited by a malicious local user to cause a kernel crash and a DoS...

Double free

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear IPQ4019, MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 650/52, SD 808, and SD 810, incorrect error handling could lead to a double fre...

The vulnerability of the libavc library in the Media Framework component of the Android operating system allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the libavc library in the Media Framework component of the Android operating system is related to improper error handling during memory allocation. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failure remotely...

The vulnerability of the libhevc library in the Media Framework of the Android operating system allows a hacker to induce a service failure.

The vulnerability of the libhevc library in the Media Framework component of the Android operating system is related to improper error handling during memory allocation. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service interruptions...

kernel: Improper error handling of VM_SHARED hugetlbfs mapping in mm/hugetlb.c

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel when freeing pages in hugetlbfs. This could trigger a local denial of service by crashing the kernel...

Confluence error pages should remove stack trace from being output to the UI

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. panel h3. Problem Definition The Confluence error page typically displays "Oops - an error has occurred", it displays System error, the cause, then the stack trace that deals with that error. This is not desirable for all...

CVE-2018-0155

A vulnerability in the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection BFD offload implementation of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, causing a denial of service DoS condition. Th...

CVE-2018-0155

A vulnerability in the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection BFD offload implementation of Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a crash of the iosd process, causing a denial of service DoS condition. Th...

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0819-1 Security update for Mozilla Thunderbird

This update for Mozilla Thunderbird to version 52.7 fixes multiple issues. The following bugs were fixed: - Searching message bodies of messages in local folders, including filter and quick filter operations, did not find content in message attachments - Better error handling for Yahoo accounts T...

mysql: Server: Error Handling unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2017)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: Error Handling. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.53 and earlier, 5.6.34 and earlier and 5.7.16 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the...

CVE-2017-18232

The Serial Attached SCSI SAS implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 mishandles a mutex within libsas, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock by triggering certain error-handling code...

Automating Penetration Testing Tasks: ODIN

ODIN Observe, Detect, and Investigate Networks is a Python tool for automating intelligence gathering, testing and reporting. ODIN is still in active development. ODIN is designed to be run on Linux. About 90% of it will absolutely work on Windows or MacOS with Python 3 and a copy of urlcrazy, bu...