Linux Kernel (ARM/ARM64) - 'perf_event_open()' Arbitrary Memory Read

perfeventopen offers to collect various pieces of information when an event occurs, including a user stack backtrace PERFSAMPLECALLCHAIN. To collect a user stack backtrace, the kernel grabs the userland register state if the event occured in kernelspace: the userland register state that was...

Code injection

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.15-rc5-next-20140519, as used in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices, mishandles execute-only pages, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557020...

CVE-2014-9803

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.15-rc5-next-20140519, as used in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices, mishandles execute-only pages, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557020...

CVE-2014-9803

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.15-rc5-next-20140519, as used in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices, mishandles execute-only pages, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557020...

CVE-2014-9803: Undefined Security Weakness

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.15-rc5-next-20140519, as used in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices, mishandles execute-only pages, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557020...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:1382-1)

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...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-629)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188:...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-2847: Limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes bsc970948. - CVE-2016-3136: mctu232: add sanity checking in probe bnc970955. - CVE-2016-2188: iowarrio...

Fedora 22 : webkitgtk-2.4.10-1.fc22 (2016-9ec1850fff)

This update addresses the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-1120 CVE-2015-1076 CVE-2015-1071 CVE-2015-1081 CVE-2015-1122 CVE-2015-1155 CVE-2014-1748 CVE-2015-3752 CVE-2015-5809 CVE-2015-5928 CVE-2015-3749 CVE-2015-3659 CVE-2015-3748 CVE-2015-3743 CVE-2015-3731 CVE-2015-3745 CVE-2015-5822...

iOS song of ice and fire fan outside the post - App Hook the Q & A and iOS 9 bash shell-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In the previous Chapter we talked about in a non-jailbreak iOS on the App Hook. Using this technique, you can be in a non-jailbreak iOS on the system to achieve a variety of hook features, e.g., micro-channel auto-grab a red envelope, the automatic chat robot, game plug-in, etc. But because of...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2015-879)

The Linux Kernel was updated to 4.1.13 and fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic or hang by triggering many DB aka Debug exceptions, related to svm.c. -...

PT-2016-4066

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.3 Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. This is due to the failure to initialize certain data structures in the arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c file, which c...

Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.1-16.fc21 (2015-3944)

Additional patch for XSA-98 on arm64 HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends XSA-119, CVE-2015-2152 Hypervisor memory corruption due to x86 emulator flaw XSA-123, CVE-2015-2151 enable building pngs from fig files which is working again, fix oxenstored.service preset...

Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.0-6.fc22 (2015-3935)

Additional patch for XSA-98 on arm64 HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends XSA-119, CVE-2015-2152 Hypervisor memory corruption due to x86 emulator flaw XSA-123, CVE-2015-2151 Information leak via internal x86 system device emulation, Information leak through version...

USN-2516-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities regression

USN-2516-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, and the fix in USN-2516-2 was incomplete. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter CNTVCT on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: A flaw w...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2465-1)

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: Security Advisory (USN-2467-1)

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 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2467-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2467-1 advisory. A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this fl...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2468-1)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KV...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2465-1)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash via a malformed INIT chunk. CVE-2014-7841 A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KV...