The vulnerability of the Linux operating system, which allows a malicious individual to increase their privileges

The compatsysrecvmmsg function in the net/compat.c file, with the configuration CONFIGX86X32, allows a malicious individual to increase their privileges through the system call recvmmsg...

FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- x86 software guest page walk PS bit handling flaw (e43b210a-4212-11e6-942d-bc5ff45d0f28)

The Xen Project reports : The Page Size PS page table entry bit exists at all page table levels other than L1. Its meaning is reserved in L4, and conditionally reserved in L3 and L2 depending on hardware capabilities. The software page table walker in the hypervisor, however, so far ignored that...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3016-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3016-3 advisory. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3017-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3017-3 advisory. USN-3017-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3018-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3018-1 advisory. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility...

CVE-2016-4997

A flaw was discovered in processing setsockopt for 32 bit processes on 64 bit systems. This flaw will allow attackers to alter arbitrary kernel memory when unloading a kernel module. This action is usually restricted to root-privileged users but can also be leveraged if the kernel is compiled wit...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ocaml security update

An update for ocaml is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Microsoft Windows - Kernel ATMFD.dll NamedEscape 0x250C Pool Corruption (MS16-074)

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=785 The Adobe Type Manager Font Driver ATMFD.DLL responsible for handling PostScript and OpenType fonts in the Windows kernel provides a channel of communication with user-mode...

Blat 3.2.14 - Stack Overflow

Blat 3.2.14 - Stack Overflow 1. Vulnerable Product Version: Blat v3.2.14 Link: blat.net 2. Vulnerability Information Impact: Attacker may gain administrative access / can perform a DOS Remotely Exploitable: No Locally Exploitable: May be possible 3. Product Details An open source Windows 32 & 64...

Microsoft Windows 7 - win32k Bitmap Use-After-Free (MS16-062) (2)

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=747 The attached PoC crashes 32-bit Windows 7 with special pool enabled on win32k.sys. It might take several runs in order to reproduce. Tested the PoC on a single core VM. Proof o...

Microsoft Windows 7 - win32k Bitmap Use-After-Free (MS16-062) (2)

Microsoft Windows 7 - win32k Bitmap Use-After-Free MS16-062 2 Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=747 The attached PoC crashes 32-bit Windows 7 with special pool enabled on win32k.sys. It might take several runs in order to reproduce. Tested the PoC on a single core...

Microsoft Windows Kernel 'Win32k.sys' CVE-2016-3221 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability that occurs in the Windows kernel. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode with elevated privileges. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems Microsof...

Microsoft Windows Graphic Component CVE-2016-3219 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems Microsoft Windows 10 for x64-based Systems Microsoft Windows 10 version 1511 for...

Ruby: Heap corruption in DateTime.strftime() on 32 bit for certain format strings

originally send by e-mail on 4 Jun 2016 Setting a very high precision in the datestrftimewithtmx function, the following check in the STRFTIME macro in datestrftime.c will not work as expected if 's' = 0x80000000 this is the same type of issue as the other vulnerability I submitted. c 124 if star...

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CPDF_DIBSource::TranslateScanline24bpp Out-of-Bounds Read

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=744 We have identified the following crash due to an out-of-bounds read in Foxit PDF Reader version 1.0.1.0925 for Linux 64-bit, when started with a specially crafted PDF file in the...

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CPDF_StreamContentParser::~CPDF_StreamContentParser Heap Memory Corruption

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CPDFStreamContentParser::CPDFStreamContentParser Heap Memory Corruption Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=741 We have identified the following memory corruption vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader version 1.0.1.0925 for Linux 64-bit, whe...

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CFX_BaseSegmentedArray::IterateIndex Memory Corruption

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=742 We have identified the following memory corruption vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader version 1.0.1.0925 for Linux 64-bit, when started with a specially crafted PDF file in the...

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CFX_BaseSegmentedArray::IterateIndex Memory Corruption

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=742 We have identified the following memory corruption vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader version 1.0.1.0925 for Linux 64-bit, when started with a specially crafted PDF file in the following way: $ DISPLAY=:1 FoxitReader...

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CFX_WideString::operator= Invalid Read

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=745 We have identified the following crash due to an invalid read in Foxit PDF Reader version 1.0.1.0925 for Linux 64-bit, when started with a specially crafted PDF file in the following way: $ DISPLAY=:1 FoxitReader...

Foxit PDF Reader 1.0.1.0925 - CPDF_StreamContentParser::~CPDF_StreamContentParser Heap Memory Corruption

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=741 We have identified the following memory corruption vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader version 1.0.1.0925 for Linux 64-bit, when started with a specially crafted PDF file in the following way: $ MALLOCCHECK=3 DISPLAY=:1 FoxitRead...