IPCDump

ipcdump Announcement post ipcdump is a tool for tracing interprocess communication IPC on Linux. It covers most of the common IPC mechanisms -- pipes, fifos, signals, unix sockets, loopback-based networking, and pseudoterminals. It's a useful tool for debugging multi-process applications, and it'...

USN-4910-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Ryota Shiga discovered that the sockopt BPF hooks in the Linux kernel could allow a user space program to probe for valid kernel addresses. A local attacker could use this to ease exploitation of another kernel vulnerability. CVE-2021-20239 It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux...

USN-4878-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate ad-hoc SSIDs. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2020-36158 Ryota Shiga discovered that the sockopt BPF hooks in th...