UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13179

Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 copies a LUKS encryption keyfile from /cryptokeyfile.bin mode 0600 owned by root to /boot within a globally readable initramfs image with insecure permissions, which allows this originally protected file to be read by any user, thereby disclosing decryption...

CVE-2019-13179

Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 copies a LUKS encryption keyfile from /cryptokeyfile.bin mode 0600 owned by root to /boot within a globally readable initramfs image with insecure permissions, which allows this originally protected file to be read by any user, thereby disclosing decryption...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: ignition-0.31.0-1.gitf59a653.fc28

Ignition is a utility used to manipulate systems during the initramfs. This includes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files regular files, systemd units, networkd units, etc., and configuring users. On first boot, Ignition reads its configuration from a source of truth remote UR...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: ignition-0.31.0-1.gitf59a653.fc29

Ignition is a utility used to manipulate systems during the initramfs. This includes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files regular files, systemd units, networkd units, etc., and configuring users. On first boot, Ignition reads its configuration from a source of truth remote UR...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

Information disclosure

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

The vulnerability CVE-2016-8637 affects dracut when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions using the early cpio path, allowing local attackers to read sensitive data from initramfs files. The root cause is information disclosure via world-readable initramfs contents generated...

Restored Linux Machine Fails to Boot

Challenge An issue with initiramfs may cause the restored Linux machine to fail to boot with the following symptoms: ForRHEL/CentOS/SUSE systems, during the boot process, they will drop into the dracut emergency shell and display errors similar to: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: dracut-046-8.git20180105.fc27

dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels. Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible into the initramfs. dracut contains various modules which are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: dracut-046-8.git20180105.fc26

dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels. Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible into the initramfs. dracut contains various modules which are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as...

Motorola Bootloader - Kernel Cmdline Injection Secure Boot and Device Locking Bypass Exploit

Exploit for Android platform in category local exploits Sources: https://alephsecurity.com/2017/08/30/untethered-initroot/ https://github.com/alephsecurity/initroot initroot: Motorola Bootloader Kernel Cmdline Injection Secure Boot & Device Locking Bypass CVE-2016-10277 By Roee Hay / Aleph...

Motorola Bootloader - Kernel Cmdline Injection Secure Boot and Device Locking Bypass

Motorola Bootloader - Kernel Cmdline Injection Secure Boot and Device Locking Bypass Sources: https://alephsecurity.com/2017/08/30/untethered-initroot/ https://github.com/alephsecurity/initroot initroot: Motorola Bootloader Kernel Cmdline Injection Secure Boot & Device Locking Bypass CVE-2016-102...

Motorola G4 & G5 mobile phone was traced to the presence of high-risk kernel command line injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In a previous article about the Nexus6 root vulnerability in the article, we had mentioned Vulnerability CVE-2016-10277 will likely affect the Motorola device. When we on Twitter by some of the relevant reports after the fact to prove our previous conjecture. In order to prove that Motorola devic...

initroot: Bypassing Nexus 6 Secure Boot through Kernel Command-line Injection

In the May 2017 Android Security Bulletin, Google released a patch to a critical and unique vulnerability CVE-2016-10277 in the Nexus 6 bootloader we had found and responsibly disclosed. By exploiting the vulnerability, a physical adversary or one with authorized-ADB/fastboot USB access to the...