CVE-2017-3162

Apache Hadoop CVE-2017-3162: A vulnerability in the HDFS namespace browsing flow where the DataNode servlet accepts a NameNode URL as a query parameter without validation, allowing an attacker to bypass security restrictions. Affected software includes Hadoop versions prior to 2.7.0; the issue st...

CVE-2017-3162

HDFS clients interact with a servlet on the DataNode to browse the HDFS namespace. The NameNode is provided as a query parameter that is not validated in Apache Hadoop before 2.7.0...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0933 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

openSUSE Security Update : lxc (openSUSE-2017-463)

This update for lxc fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic allowed access to network namespace over which the caller did not hold privilege boo1028264. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

kernel: Signed overflow for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of setsockopt for the SOSND|RCVBUFFORCE setsockopt system call. Users with non-namespace CAPNETADMIN are able to trigger this call and create a situation in which the sockets sendbuff data size could be negative. This could adversely affect...

Adobe Reader DC XSLT Namespace Node Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within...

CVE-2017-5607

Splunk Enterprise 5.0.x before 5.0.18, 6.0.x before 6.0.14, 6.1.x before 6.1.13, 6.2.x before 6.2.13.1, 6.3.x before 6.3.10, 6.4.x before 6.4.6, and 6.5.x before 6.5.3 and Splunk Light before 6.5.2 assigns the $C JS property to the global Window namespace, which might allow remote attackers to...

Ubuntu PT Chown Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/PtChownArbitraryPtsAccessViaUserNamespace/ Introduction Problem description: With Ubuntu Wily and earlier, /usr/lib/ptchown was used to change ownership of slave pts devices in /dev/pts to the same uid holding the master file descriptor for the slave...

Ubuntu 14.04/15.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr Setgid Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/UserNamespaceOverlayfsXattrSetgidPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: Linux user namespace allows to mount file systems as normal user, including the overlayfs. As many of those...

openSUSE Security Update : open-vm-tools (openSUSE-2017-385)

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues : - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand ...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1)

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues : - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand ...

SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1 Security update for open-vm-tools

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues: - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand -...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985

lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers LXC allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and choose the name of those interfaces by leveraging lack of netns ownership check...

Google Upspin Secure File-Sharing Released to Open Source

Google has released to open source new file-sharing interfaces and protocols it calls Upspin that allow users to securely share files using a global namespace rather than uploading and downloading content or sharing it first with a web-based service. Upspin is largely a consumer tool, Google said...

openSUSE Security Update : open-vm-tools (openSUSE-2017-276)

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues : - Updated to 10.1.0 stable release boo1011057 + vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility. + gtk3 support + Common Agent Framework CAF + guest authentication with xmlsec1 + FreeBSD support + sub-command to push updated network information...

Adobe Reader DC XSLT namespace-alias Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within XSLT's...

GitLab: Users can download old project exports due to unclaimed namespace

TL;DR: Happy new year and happy birthday, @douwem! Vulnerability details When a user renames its namespace, another user can claim the namespace and download old export files from the victim. The attack scenario here is that someone would scrape existing GitLab namespaces users and groups, which...

Code injection

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption and deadlock via MSBIND mount system calls, as demonstrated by a loop that triggers exponential growth in the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6213

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption and deadlock via MSBIND mount system calls, as demonstrated by a loop that triggers exponential growth in the...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3161-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-4 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...