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USN-2848-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the host or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. CVE-2015-8550...
USN-2847-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the host or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. CVE-2015-8550...
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8709
kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 mishandles uid and gid mappings, which allows local users to gain privileges by establishing a user namespace, waiting for a root process to enter that namespace with an unsafe uid or gid, and then using the ptrace system call. NOTE: the vendor...
CVE-2015-8709
kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 mishandles uid and gid mappings, which allows local users to gain privileges by establishing a user namespace, waiting for a root process to enter that namespace with an unsafe uid or gid, and then using the ptrace system call. NOTE: the vendor...
PT-2015-7820 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 4.4.1 Description: The Linux kernel mishandles uid and gid mappings, which allows local users to gain privileges by establishing a user namespace, waiting for a root process to enter that namespace with an unsafe...
Beurk - Experimental Unix Rootkit
BEURK is an userland preload rootkit for GNU/Linux, heavily focused around anti-debugging and anti-detection. NOTE: BEURK is a recursive acronym for B EURK E xperimental U nix R oot K it Features Hide attacker files and directories Realtime log cleanup on utmp/wtmp Anti process and login detectio...
Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2014-3047)
The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...
General Purpose Fuzzing: Honggfuzz
Honggfuzz is a general-purpose fuzzing tool. Given a starting corpus of test files, Hongfuzz supplies and modifies input to a test program and utilize the ptrace API / POSIX signal interface to detect and log crashes. Features Easy setup : No complicated configuration files or setup necessary —...
SUSE SLED10 / SLES10 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2013:0674-1)
This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel. The following security issues have been fixed : CVE-2013-0871: A race condition in ptrace2 could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel and/or execute code in kernel context...
CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2014:1971)
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...
Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20141209)
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation handled the association's output queue. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets that would cause the system to use an excessive amount of memory, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2014-3688, Important Two flaws we...
Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1971)
The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1971 advisory. - alsa control: Make sure that id-index does not overflow Jaroslav Kysela 1117313 1117314 CVE-2014-4656 - alsa control: Handle numid overflow Jaroslav...
kernel: exec/ptrace: get_dumpable() incorrect tests
A flaw was found in the way the getdumpable function return value was interpreted in the ptrace subsystem of the Linux kernel. When 'fs.suiddumpable' was set to 2, a local, unprivileged local user could use this flaw to bypass intended ptrace restrictions and obtain potentially sensitive...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...
RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0925)
Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...
AIX 6.1 TL 8 : bos.mp64 (U862133)
The remote host is missing AIX PTF U862133, which is related to the security of the package bos.mp64. IBM AIX is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ptrace function. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...
AIX 6.1 TL 7 : bos.mp64 (U861576)
The remote host is missing AIX PTF U861576, which is related to the security of the package bos.mp64. IBM AIX is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ptrace function. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...
AIX 7.1 TL 1 : bos.mp64 (U861815)
The remote host is missing AIX PTF U861815, which is related to the security of the package bos.mp64. IBM AIX is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ptrace function. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...
AIX 7.1 TL 2 : bos.mp64 (U859634)
The remote host is missing AIX PTF U859634, which is related to the security of the package bos.mp64. IBM AIX is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ptrace function. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...
