Ubuntu Patches Privilege-Escalation Bug

There is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in several versions of Ubuntu that results from the fact that the operating system fails to check permissions when users are creating files in some specific circumstances. Security researcher Philip Pettersson discovered the vulnerability and reported...

Linux Kernel 3.13.0 < 3.19 (Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/14.10/15.04) - 'overlayfs' Local Privilege Escalation (Access /etc/shadow)

The overlayfs filesystem does not correctly check file permissions when creating new files in the upper filesystem directory. This can be exploited by an unprivileged process in kernels with CONFIGUSERNS=y and where overlayfs has the FSUSERNSMOUNT flag, which allows the mounting of overlayfs insi...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2644-1)

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...

USN-2645-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges on the system...

PT-2016-3504

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.2 Description The issue allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and navigate to filesystem locations beneath a mount by calling umount2 within a user namespace. This is due to the Linux...

PT-2016-3619

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.2 Description The issue concerns a problem in the Linux kernel where the fs/namespace.c file does not properly support mount connectivity. This allows local users with user-namespace root access to read...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2336-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS crash. CVE-2014-0155 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the authorization of netlink socket operations when a socket...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2317-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2318-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5206

The doremount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not maintain the MNTLOCKREADONLY bit across a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only restriction and defeat certain sandbox protection mechanisms via a "mount -o remount"...

CVE-2014-5207

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5207

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...

CVE-2014-5206

The doremount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not maintain the MNTLOCKREADONLY bit across a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only restriction and defeat certain sandbox protection mechanisms via a "mount -o remount"...

CVE-2014-5206

The doremount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not maintain the MNTLOCKREADONLY bit across a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only restriction and defeat certain sandbox protection mechanisms via a "mount -o remount"...

Design/Logic Flaw

The doremount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not maintain the MNTLOCKREADONLY bit across a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only restriction and defeat certain sandbox protection mechanisms via a "mount -o remount"...

CVE-2014-5206

CVE-2014-5206 : In Linux kernel versions up to 3.16.1, the do_remount function in fs/namespace.c fails to preserve the MNT_LOCK_READONLY flag across remounts of bind mounts. This allows a local user to bypass the intended read-only restriction by using a mount -o remount within a user namespace, ...

CVE-2014-5207

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...

CVE-2014-5206

The doremount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not maintain the MNTLOCKREADONLY bit across a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only restriction and defeat certain sandbox protection mechanisms via a "mount -o remount"...

CVE-2014-5207

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 does not properly restrict clearing MNTNODEV, MNTNOSUID, and MNTNOEXEC and changing MNTATIMEMASK during a remount of a bind mount, which allows local users to gain privileges, interfere with backups and auditing on systems that had atime enabled, ...