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Ubuntu overlayfs privilege elevation
Added: 06/26/2015 CVE: CVE-2015-1328 BID: 75206 Background Overlayfs is a type of file system for Linux which implements a union mount. Problem In Ubuntu, overlayfs fails to correctly check file permissions when creating new files in the upper filesystem directory. This can be exploited by an...
kernel: pipe: iovec overrun leading to memory corruption
It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O vector array...
kernel: pipe: iovec overrun leading to memory corruption
It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O vector array...
kernel: partial ASLR bypass through TLS base addresses leak
An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed certain segment registers and thread-local storage TLS during a context switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user space TLS base address of an arbitrary process...
Microsoft Office CVE-2015-1760 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability because it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in...
Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2015-1741 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...
Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2015-1740 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...
USN-2620-1 linux vulnerability
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's IPv4 networking when using TCP fast open to initiate a connection. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash...
Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2015-1718 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...
Microsoft Windows Journal File Processing CVE-2015-1697 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsof...
Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2015-1706 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...
kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems
An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally, an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was found in the syscall...
Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2015-1652 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...
kernel: kvm: vmx: invalid host cr4 handling across vm entries
It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM implementation did not ensure that the host CR4 control register value remained unchanged across VM entries on the same virtual CPU. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system...
Fedora 20 : texlive-2013-6.20131226_r32488.fc20 (2015-4332)
CVE-2015-0296 texlive rpm scriptlet allows unprivileged user to delete arbitrary files. This update fixes this issue Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format...
Debian DLA-30-1 : acpi-support security update
CESG discovered a race condition in acpi-support which may allow an unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code as a different user, including root. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...
FreeBSD : libXfont -- BDF parsing issues (f7d79fac-cd49-11e4-898f-bcaec565249c)
Alan Coopersmith reports : Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered an issue in the parsing of BDF font files by libXfont. Additional testing by Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet with the American Fuzzy Lop afl tool uncovered two more issues in the parsing of BDF...
kernel: splice: lack of generic write checks
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's splice system call validated its parameters. On certain file systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to write past the maximum file size, and thus crash the system...
Kernel: fs: ext4 race condition
A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 file system implementation that allowed a local, unprivileged user to crash the system by simultaneously writing to a file and toggling the ODIRECT flag using fcntlFSETFL on that file...
kernel: soft lockup on aio
It was found that due to excessive fileslock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...