Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000111: Fixed a race condition in net-packet code that could be exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access bsc1052365. - CVE-2017-1000112: Fixed a race...

LG G4 - Touchscreen Driver write_log Kernel Read/Write Exploit

Exploit for Android platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=990 The following function and variations on the same code is used to write to files from kernel code in various touchscreen drivers. This copy is from...

Google Android - pm_qos KASLR Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit for Android platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=971 The "pmqos" module exposes an interface to kernel space for specifying QoS dependencies. In order to aid in debugging this interface, the module exposes a "debugfs" interface,...

Google Android TSP sysfs - cmd_store Multiple Overflows Vulnerability

Google Security Research Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=967 The TSP touchscreen controller driver exposes several sysfs entries through which the driver may be configured. One such entry, "cmd", allows the user to write commands to be executed by the driver...

Google Android TSP sysfs - cmd_store Multiple Overflows

Google Android TSP sysfs - cmdstore Multiple Overflows Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=967 The TSP touchscreen controller driver exposes several sysfs entries through which the driver may be configured. One such entry, "cmd", allows the user to write commands to ...

Google Android TSP sysfs - 'cmd_store' Multiple Overflows

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=967 The TSP touchscreen controller driver exposes several sysfs entries through which the driver may be configured. One such entry, "cmd", allows the user to write commands to be executed by the driver. Specifically, the "cmd" entr...

Google Android max86902 Driver - sysfs Interfaces Race Condition Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=963 The MAX86902 sensor has a driver that exposes several interfaces through which the device may be configured. In addition to exposing a character device, it also exposes several...

Google Android max86902 Driver - sysfs Interfaces Race Condition

Google Android max86902 Driver - sysfs Interfaces Race Condition Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=963 The MAX86902 sensor has a driver that exposes several interfaces through which the device may be configured. In addition to exposing a character device, it also...

Google Android max86902 Driver - 'sysfs' Interfaces Race Condition

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=963 The MAX86902 sensor has a driver that exposes several interfaces through which the device may be configured. In addition to exposing a character device, it also exposes several entries under sysfs. Some of these entries are...

The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the sblim-cmpi-sysfs-test-1.1.9 package of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploitation of this vulnerability can be carried out locally...

The vulnerability of the CentOS operating system allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the sblim-cmpi-sysfs-test-1.1.9 package of the CentOS operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploiting this vulnerability can be carried out locally...

OracleVM 2.1 : kernel (OVMSA-2008-2005)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - fix utrace deadengine ops race - fix ptraceattach leak - CVE-2007-5093: kernel PWC driver DoS - CVE-2007-6282: IPSec ESP kernel panics - CVE-2007-6712: kernel: infinite loop in highres timers kernel...

Sun Solaris 2.6/7.0/8/9 vfs_getvfssw function Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9962/info It has been reported that Sun Solaris may be prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability that may allow an attacker to gain root access to a vulnerable system. The issue exists due to insufficient...

kernel: security and bugfix update (important)

The Linux kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues: - mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - mm/page-writeback.c: fix dirtybalancereserve subtraction from dirtyable memory reclaim stalls. - compatsysrecvmmsg X32 fix bnc860993...

Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0089)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0089 advisory. 2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 - NET Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump Michael Chan ORA 621936...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939 kernel: megaraidsas permissions in sysfs CVE-2009-3080 kernel: gdth: Prevent negative offsets in ioctl CVE-2009-4005 kernel: isdn: hfcusb: fix read buffer overflow CVE-2009-4020 kernel: hfs buffer overflow This update fixes the following security issues : - an array...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

2.6.39-200.24.1.el5uek - Revert 'Add Oracle VM guest messaging driver' Guru Anbalagane Orabug: 14233627 2.6.39-200.23.1.el5uek - SPEC: add block/net modules to list used by installer Guru Anbalagane Orabug: 14224837 2.6.39-200.22.1.el5uek - NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data Andy Adamson...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 6810)

This update fixes a several security issues and various bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP 2 kernel. The following security issues were fixed : - Two sysfs filers in the qla2xxx driver were worldwriteable, so users could change SCSI attributes of the qla2xxx driver. CVE-2009-4536:...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (x86_64) (ZYPP Patch Number 2096)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - A double userspace copy in a SCTP ioctl allows local attackers to overflow a buffer in the kernel, potentially allowing code execution and privilege escalation. 199441. CVE-2006-3745 - Local attackers were able to crash PowerPC systems...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1455 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...