The strangest cybersecurity events of 2020: a look back

This year is finally coming to an end, and it only took us about eight consecutive months of March to get here. There is a ton to talk about, and that’s without even discussing the literal global pandemic. You see, 2020s news stories were the pressure-cooker product of mania, chaos, and the...

UFO VPN leaks database again; gets taken over & destroyed by hackers

By Sudais Asif UFO VPN was caught saving and leaking user logs despite complaining strictly no-log policy. Here's what happened now. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UFO VPN leaks database again; gets taken over & destroyed by hackers...

CVE-2017-1000112

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

Internet Bug Bounty: Linux kernel: CVE-2017-1000112: a memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

Hi! CVE-2017-1000112 is a vulnerability I found in the Linux kernel caused by a UFO to non-UFO path switch for UFO packets. It can be exploited to gain kernel code execution from an unprivileged process. This vulnerability was reported to [email protected] and linux-distros@ following the...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. 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 rating, is available for...

Access Controls Bypass

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol suite implementation handled sending of certain UDP packets over sockets that used the UDPCORK option when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1475)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The skbflowdissect function in net/core/flowdissector.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denia...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1500)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The IPv6 DCCP implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles inheritance, which allows local users to cause a denial of...

Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel is vulnerable to memory corruption vulnerability. This is because the append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root...

Sensitive Information Disclosure

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPv6 implementation handled certain UDP packets when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled. A remot...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way IP packets with an Internet Header Length ihl of zero were processed in the skbflowdissect function in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger an infinit...

Linux Kernel UDP Fragmentation Offset (UFO) Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module attempts to gain root privileges on Linux systems by abusing UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. This exploit targets only systems using Ubuntu Trusty / Xenial kernels 4.4.0-21 'Linux Kernel UDP Fragmentation Offset UFO Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module...

Linux Kernel UDP Fragmentation Offset (UFO) Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Linux Kernel UDP Fragmentation Offset UFO Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module attempts to gain root privileges on Linux systems...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.16.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.16.1 - net packet: fix tpreserve race in packetsetring Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check for tpframenr Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2017-1256)

According to the version of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in...

ufo-filmgeraet.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-372661 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ufo-filmgeraet.de Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...