Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3360-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

USN-3360-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a Wake- on-Lan data structure. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2014-9900 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to /proc/iomem. A local attacker...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20170623)

Security Fixes : - It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their...

sudo: Privilege escalation via improper get_process_ttyname() parsing (insufficient fix for CVE-2017-1000367)

It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

CVE-2017-1000368

It was found that the original fix for CVE-2017-1000367 was incomplete. A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

GLSA-201705-15 : sudo: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201705-15 sudo: Privilege escalation Qualys discovered a vulnerability in sudos getprocessttyname for Linux, that via sudottynamescan can be directed to use a user-controlled, arbitrary tty device during its traversal of /dev by...

CVE-2017-1000367 in Sudo's get_process_ttyname() for Linux

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Sudo vulnerability (USN-3304-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3304-1 advisory. It was discovered that Sudo did not properly parse the contents of /proc/pid/stat when attempting to determine its controlling tty. A local attacker i...

CVE-2017-1000367

A flaw was found in the way sudo parsed tty information from the process status file in the proc filesystem. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root...

sudo: Privilege escalation

Background sudo su “do” allows a system administrator to delegate authority to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run some or all commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail of the commands and their arguments. Description Qualys discovered a vulnerability in...

CVE-2017-8925

The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3567)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3567 advisory. - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 25986995 CVE-2017-7895 - KVM: x86: fix emulation of 'MOV SS, null...

kernel: Race condition access to n_hdlc.tbuf causes double free in n_hdlc_release()

A race condition flaw was found in the NHLDC Linux kernel driver when accessing nhdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system...

CVE-2017-8925

The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

CVE-2017-8925

The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8925

The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

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The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

CVE-2017-8925

The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

CVE-2017-8925

The omninetopen function in drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service tty exhaustion by leveraging reference count mishandling...

kernel: Race condition access to n_hdlc.tbuf causes double free in n_hdlc_release()

A race condition flaw was found in the NHLDC Linux kernel driver when accessing nhdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system...