Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerability (USN-2642-1)

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. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubunt...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2642-1)

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...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-2646-1)

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. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubunt...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerability (USN-2645-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2645-1 advisory. Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain...

USN-2647-1: Linux kernel 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...

USN-2646-1: Linux kernel 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...

USN-2645-1 linux-lts-vivid 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...

USN-2644-1: Linux kernel (Utopic 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...

USN-2644-1 linux-lts-utopic 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...

USN-2643-1 linux 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...

USN-2643-1: Linux kernel 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...

USN-2642-1: Linux kernel (Trusty 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...

USN-2641-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) 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...

USN-2640-1: Linux kernel 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...

USN-2337-1 linux vulnerabilities

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...

USN-2337-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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...

USN-2336-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

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...

Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-linus provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

USN-2318-1 linux vulnerabilities

Eric W. Biederman discovered a flaw with the mediation of mount flags in the Linux kernel's user namespace subsystem. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to by-pass mount restrictions, and potentially gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-5207 Kenton Varda discovered a flaw with...