The vulnerability in the net/packet/af_packet.c component of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to trigger a service failure or increase their privileges.

The vulnerability in the net/packet/afpacket.c component of the Linux operating system exists due to insufficient checking of resource states when resources are allowed to be shared among multiple processes. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to increase their privileges or cause...

CVE-2016-7421

The pvscsiringpopreqdescr function in hw/scsi/vmwpvscsi.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by leveraging failure to limit process IO loop to the ring size...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8655

Race condition in net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.12 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free by leveraging the CAPNETRAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packetsetring and packetsetsockopt functions...

FreeBSD : xen-tools -- qemu incautious about shared ring processing (58685e23-ba4d-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : The compiler can emit optimizations in qemu which can lead to double fetch vulnerabilities. Specifically data on the rings shared between qemu and the hypervisor which the guest under control can obtain mappings of can be fetched twice during which time the guest can alt...

Fedora 24 : xen (2016-95c104a4c6)

xen : various security flaws 1397383 x86 null segments not always treated as unusable XSA-191, CVE-2016-9386 x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled XSA-192, CVE-2016-9382 x86 segment base write emulation lacking canonical address checks XSA-193, CVE-2016-9385 x86 64-bit bit test instruction...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8655

Race condition in net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.12 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free by leveraging the CAPNETRAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packetsetring and packetsetsockopt functions...

PT-2016-2922 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.8.12 Description: The issue exists due to insufficient checking of a resource's state when it can be shared, allowing a local attacker to potentially gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free...

xen-tools -- qemu incautious about shared ring processing

The Xen Project reports: The compiler can emit optimizations in qemu which can lead to double fetch vulnerabilities. Specifically data on the rings shared between qemu and the hypervisor which the guest under control can obtain mappings of can be fetched twice during which time the guest can alte...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-8576

The xhciringfetch function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by leveraging failure to limit the number of link Transfer Request Blocks TRB to process...

Design/Logic Flaw

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8576

The xhciringfetch function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by leveraging failure to limit the number of link Transfer Request Blocks TRB to process...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8910

The rtl8139cplustransmit function in hw/net/rtl8139.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption by leveraging failure to limit the ring descriptor count...

kernel: Null pointer dereference in trace_writeback_dirty_page()

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel that an attempt to move page mapped by AIO ring buffer to the other node triggers NULL pointer dereference at tracewritebackdirtypage, because aiofsbackingdevinfo.dev is 0...

The vulnerability of the SELinux security mechanism, which allows a perpetrator to circumvent existing access restrictions

The vulnerability of the SELinux security mechanism is related to code errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, who operates locally, to gain access to memory with write and execute privileges by manipulating system calls such as iosetup, ioctxalloc, and aiosetupring...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7909

The pcnetrdraaddr function in hw/net/pcnet.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by setting the 1 receive or 2 transmit descriptor ring length to 0...