New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system display server that offers ...

New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system display server that offers ...

Network-Attacker - WiFi Stress Testing Beacon Flooding & Deauthentication Attack

network-attacker V0.1 is a Wifi Stress Testing Bash Script Program Based on Mdk3 Beacon Flooding & Deauthentication Attack Created To Help Beginners And even Professionals For a eacon Flooding Or Deauthentication Attack On Networks Installation sudo apt-get install git sudo git clone...

Critical Flaws in Ghostscript Could Leave Many Systems at Risk of Hacking

Google Project Zero's security researcher has discovered a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Ghostscript—an open source interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and PDF page description languages. Written entirely in C, Ghostscript is a package of software that runs on differen...

Autocrack - Hashcat Wrapper To Help Automate The Cracking Process

This python script is a Hashcat https://hashcat.net wrapper to help automate the cracking process. The script includes multiple functions to select a set of wordlists and rules, as well as the ability to run a bruteforce attack, with custom masks, before the wordlist/rule attacks. Autocrack uses...

OpenVAS Knowledge Base become smaller

At 23 January Jan Oliver Wagner, leader of OpenVAS project and Greenbone CEO, sent an email with a subject "Attic Cleanup". In this message, he mentioned, that some NASL plugins will be excluded from the public NVT / Greenbone Community Feed GCF soon. On the one hand it seems logical. These old...

Update Samba Servers Immediately to Patch Password Reset and DoS Vulnerabilities

Samba maintainers have just released new versions of their networking software to patch two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and change any other users' passwords, including admin's. Samba is open-source software...

glibc - getcwd() Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / This software is provided by the copyright owner "as is" and any expressed or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall...

glibc getcwd() Local Privilege Escalation

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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...