Flaw Found In Dirty COW Patch

A flaw in the original patch for the notorious Dirty COW vulnerability could allow an adversary to run local code on affected systems and exploit a race condition to perform a privilege escalation attack. The flaw in the Dirty COW patch CVE-2016-5195, released in October 2016, was identified by...

IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IcedTea. Please review the referenced CVE...

Yet Another Linux Kernel Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered

Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execute code on the affected systems with elevated privileges. Discovered by Venustech ADLab Active-Defense Lab researchers, the Linux kernel vulnerability...

CentOS 7 before 1708 PIE/stack corruption Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category remote exploits Linux PIE/stack corruption CVE-2017-1000253 ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Analysis Exploitation Acknowledgmen...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

Google Warns of DoS and RCE Bugs in Dnsmasq

Seven flaws in what is known as Dnsmasq can be exploited by attackers who can use the bugs to carry out remote code execution, information exposure or a denial of service attacks against affected devices. Google researchers identified the flaws in a research paper published Monday, the same day a...

Directory traversal

The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu...

Commix 1.6 - Automated All-In-One OS Command Injection And Exploitation Tool

Commix short for comm and i njection e x ploiter is an automated tool written by Anastasios Stasinopoulos @ancst that can be used from web developers, penetration testers or even security researchers in order to test web-based applications with the view to find bugs, errors or vulnerabilities...

Google Chrome (Fedora 25 Ubuntu 16.04) - tracker-extract gnome-video-thumbnailer + totem Drive-By Download

Google Chrome Fedora 25 Ubuntu 16.04 - tracker-extract gnome-video-thumbnailer + totem Drive-By Download Source: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html Overview Full reliable 0day drive-by exploit against Fedora 25 + Google Chrome, by breaking out...

Google Chrome (Fedora 25 / Ubuntu 16.04) - 'tracker-extract' / 'gnome-video-thumbnailer' + 'totem' Drive-By Download

Source: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html Overview Full reliable 0day drive-by exploit against Fedora 25 + Google Chrome, by breaking out of Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulation via cascading side effects from a subtle and interestin...

Alpha Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Released

A sandboxed version of the Tor Browser was released over the weekend, and while there are still some rough edges and bugs – potentially major, according to the developer– it could be the first step toward protecting Tor users from recent de-anonymization exploits. Yawning Angel, a longtime Tor...

Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access on Some Linux Systems

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. From there, an attacker could have the ability to copy, modify, or destroy a hard disk, or use the network to exfiltrate...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

PT-2016-6422 · Apache +2 · Apache Tomcat +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache Tomcat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf,...

Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner: WPScan

WPScan is a Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner that attempts to find known security weaknesses within WordPress installations. The application is provided for security professionals or WordPress administrators to help them find security problems and vulnerabilities in their installations. ...

DHCP exhaustion attack: DHCPig

dhcpig – an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack DHCPig initiates an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack. It will consume all IPs on the LAN, stop new users from obtaining IPs, release any IPs in use, then for good measure send gratuitous ARP and knock all windows hosts offline. It requires scapy =2.1...