Linux kernel Linux-4.6/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c buffer overflow vulnerability

The Linux Kernel is the kernel of the Linux operating system. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel 4.6 and earlier, Linux-4.6/drivers/platform/chrome/crosecdev.c implementation. A buffer overflow can be caused by a remote user utilizing constructed userspace data...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1277)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability from th...

kernel: infiniband: Unprivileged process can overwrite kernel memory using rdma_ucm.ko

A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem used write as bi-directional ioctl replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory security checks when being invoked using the splice system call. A local unprivileged user on a system with either...

Apple Mac OSX Kernel - NULL Dereference in IOAccelSharedUserClient2::page_off_resource

Apple Mac OSX Kernel - NULL Dereference in IOAccelSharedUserClient2::pageoffresource / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=778 IOAccelerator external method IOAccelSharedUserClient2::pageoffresource uses the pointer at this+0x100 without checking if it's NULL. A seri...

Apple Mac OSX Kernel - Null Pointer Dereference in AppleGraphicsDeviceControl

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=782 AppleGraphicsDeviceControlClient doesn't check that its pointer to its IOService at this+0xd8 is non-null before using it in all external methods. We can set this pointer to NULL by racing two threads, one of which calls...

Apple Mac OSX Kernel - Null Pointer Dereference in AppleMuxControl.kext

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=783 The method AppleGraphicsControlClient::checkArguments does actually appear to test whether the pointer at this+0xd8 is non-null, but uses it anyway : We can race external methods which call this with another thread calling...

CRIU Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

CRIU Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace is a set of Linux userspace userspace on the implementation of the checkpoint/restore function of the software to freeze and restore the execution of tools. The tool supports freezing or partially freezing the execution of an application and saving its executi...

CVE-2014-8181

The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 does not clear garbage data for SGIO buffer, which may leaking sensitive information to userspace...

kernel: kvm: reporting emulation failures to userspace

It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead to either a local CVE-2014-7842 or a L2-L1 CVE-2010-5313 denial of service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have access to the MMIO area or be able to access an I/O port. Please note that on certain...

kernel: kvm: reporting emulation failures to userspace

It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead to either a local CVE-2014-7842 or a L2-L1 CVE-2010-5313 denial of service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have access to the MMIO area or be able to access an I/O port. Please note that on certain...

openafs -- multiple vulnerabilities

The OpenAFS development team reports: Foreign users can bypass access controls to create groups as system:administrators, including in the user namespace and the system: namespace. The contents of uninitialized memory are sent on the wire when clients perform certain RPCs. Depending on the RPC, t...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) regression (USN-2910-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2910-2 advisory. USN-2910-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 15.04 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect locking fix caused a regression that broke graphics...

USN-2910-1 Linux kernel vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-2910-1 Linux kernel vulnerability High Vendor Ubuntu Versions Affected Ubuntu 14.04 Description 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...

USN-2908-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

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...

USN-2907-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

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...

USN-2907-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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...

USN-2907-1 linux vulnerabilities

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...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2886-1)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0033)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 Security Advisory 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...