hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

BSA-2017-320

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-320 Component : Intel Active Mgmt Technology Revision : 1.0: Interim There is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology AMT, Intel® Standard Manageability ISM, and Intel® Small Business Technology versions firmware versions 6.x...

PostgreSQL Multiple Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (May 2017) - Linux

PostgreSQL is prone to multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities. 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 CPE =...

CVE-2017-7484

It was found that some selectivity estimation functions in PostgreSQL before 9.2.21, 9.3.x before 9.3.17, 9.4.x before 9.4.12, 9.5.x before 9.5.7, and 9.6.x before 9.6.3 did not check user privileges before providing information from pgstatistic, possibly leaking information. An unprivileged...

PT-2017-3820 · Postgresql +3 · Postgresql +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PostgreSQL versions prior to 9.2.21 PostgreSQL versions 9.3.x prior to 9.3.17 PostgreSQL versions 9.4.x prior to 9.4.12 PostgreSQL versions 9.5.x prior to 9.5.7 PostgreSQL versions 9.6.x prior to 9.6.3 Description: The issue is related to...

[ASA-201705-11] smb4k: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201705-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2017-05-10 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-8849 Package : smb4k Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-268 Summary ======= The package smb4k before version...

Intel Active Management Technology Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00075) - Active Check

Intel systems with Intel Active Management Technology enabled are prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Intel Standard Manageability Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Intel system with Intel Standard Manageability is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. 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-onl...

Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller is a powerful and flexible traffic engineering solution that enables granular visualization and control of IP/MPLS flows in carrier networks. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller that could allow an...

CVE-2017-5689

An unprivileged network attacker could gain system privileges to provisioned Intel manageability SKUs: Intel Active Management Technology AMT and Intel Standard Manageability ISM. An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system...

CVE-2017-5689

An unprivileged network attacker could gain system privileges to provisioned Intel manageability SKUs: Intel Active Management Technology AMT and Intel Standard Manageability ISM. An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system...

CVE-2017-0476

A remote code execution vulnerability in AOSP Messaging could enable an attacker using a specially crafted file to cause memory corruption during media file and data processing. This issue is rated as High due to the possibility of remote code execution within the context of an unprivileged...

kernel: sound: a race condition in the kernel sound timer in snd_timer_user_read()

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's sound timer code in the sndtimeruserread function in the sound/core/timer.c file. An unprivileged attacker can exploit the race condition to cause an out-of-bound access which may lead to a system crash or other unspecified impact. Due to the natur...

USN-3094-1 systemd vulnerability

Andrew Ayer discovered that Systemd improperly handled zero-length notification messages. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service init crash leading to system unavailability...

USN-2999-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2979-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2979-1 advisory. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Rang...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2908-3)

halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain privileges. CVE-2016-1576 halfdog discovered that OverlayFS in the Linux kernel incorrectly propagated security...

Debian DSA-3451-1 : fuse - security update

Jann Horn discovered a vulnerability in the fuse Filesystem in Userspace package in Debian. The fuse package ships an udev rule adjusting permissions on the related /dev/cuse character device, making it world writable. This permits a local, unprivileged attacker to create an arbitrarily-named...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2823-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2823-1 advisory. It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local...

USN-2588-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A stack overflow was discovered in the the microcode loader for the intel x86 platform. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service kernel crash or to potentially execute code with kernel privileges. CVE-2015-2666 It was discovered that the Linux kernel's IPv6 networking...