VMware Tools Security Vulnerability

VMware Tools is an enhancement tool that comes with VMware's VMWare virtual machines, and is a driver provided by VMware to enhance the performance of virtual graphics cards and hard disks, as well as to synchronize the clocks of the virtual machine with the host computer. A security vulnerabilit...

CVE-2023-34059: Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

CVE-2023-34059

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-34059

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs...

PT-2023-8895

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions open-vm-tools affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file...

GHSA-C827-HFW6-QWVM rustix's `rustix::fs::Dir` iterator with the `linux_raw` backend can cause memory explosion

Summary When using rustix::fs::Dir using the linuxraw backend, it's possible for the iterator to "get stuck" when an IO error is encountered. Combined with a memory over-allocation issue in rustix::fs::Dir::readmore, this can cause quick and unbounded memory explosion gigabytes in a few seconds i...

rustix's `rustix::fs::Dir` iterator with the `linux_raw` backend can cause memory explosion

Summary When using rustix::fs::Dir using the linuxraw backend, it's possible for the iterator to "get stuck" when an IO error is encountered. Combined with a memory over-allocation issue in rustix::fs::Dir::readmore, this can cause quick and unbounded memory explosion gigabytes in a few seconds i...

CVE-2023-5369

Before correction, the copyfilerange system call checked only for the CAPREAD and CAPWRITE capabilities on the input and output file descriptors, respectively. Using an offset is logically equivalent to seeking, and the system call must additionally require the CAPSEEK capability. This incorrect...

Input validation

Before correction, the copyfilerange system call checked only for the CAPREAD and CAPWRITE capabilities on the input and output file descriptors, respectively. Using an offset is logically equivalent to seeking, and the system call must additionally require the CAPSEEK capability. This incorrect...

CVE-2023-5369 copy_file_range insufficient capability rights check

Before correction, the copyfilerange system call checked only for the CAPREAD and CAPWRITE capabilities on the input and output file descriptors, respectively. Using an offset is logically equivalent to seeking, and the system call must additionally require the CAPSEEK capability. This incorrect...

CVE-2023-5369

CVE-2023-5369 concerns copy_file_range with an incomplete privilege check. Connected FreeBSD advisories confirm the issue: the syscall validated only CAP_READ and CAP_WRITE; CAP_SEEK is also required for offset-based access. The flaw enables a sandboxed process with read or write capabilities but...

FreeBSD -- copy_file_range insufficient capability rights check

Problem Description: The syscall checked only for the CAPREAD and CAPWRITE capabilities on the input and output file descriptors, respectively. Using an offset is logically equivalent to seeking, and the syscall must additionally require the CAPSEEK capability. Impact: A sandboxed process with on...

Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALASGOLANG1.19-2023-002)

The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.19.6-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2GOLANG1.19-2023-002 advisory. An out of bounds read vulnerability was found in debug/macho of the Go standard library. When using the debug/mac...

libbfd Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the libbfd library in the GNU Binutils development environment is related to the use of a zero pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

Oracle Linux 5 : ELSA-2012-1061-1: / kernel (ELSA-2012-10611)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-10611 advisory. - The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD operations, which allows...

Oracle Linux 7 : runc (ELSA-2019-4540)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4540 advisory. - Apply patch for CVE-2019-5736 Wiekus Beukes - Resolves: 1412238 - CVE-2016-9962 - set init processes as non-dumpable, runc patch from Michael Crosby Tenable h...

Linux/x64 - memfd_create ELF loader Shellcode (170 bytes)

Shellcode Title: Linux/x64 - memfdcreate ELF loader 170 bytes Shellcode Author: Ivan Nikolsky enty8080 & Tomas Globis tomasglgg Tested on: Linux x8664 Shellcode Description: This shellcode attempts to establish reverse TCP connection, reads ELF length, reads ELF and maps it into the memory, creat...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

gRPC is vulnerable to Denial Of Service DoS. The vulnerability exists because the file descriptor is not properly handled, which leads to the termination of the connection between a proxy and a backend when a hpack table accounting errors occur, allowing an attacker to cause an application crash ...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:2945-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

SUSE-SU-2023:2945-1 Security update for openssh

This update for openssh fixes the following issues: - CVE-2023-38408: Fixed a condition where specific libaries loaded via ssh-agent1's PKCS11 support could be abused to achieve remote code execution via a forwarded agent socket if those libraries were present on the victim's system and if the...