The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerabilities of MediaTek components, including the temperature control driver and the Android operating system’s video driver, are related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary local malware code within the kernel...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerabilities of MediaTek components, including the temperature control driver and the Android operating system’s video driver, are related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary local malware code within the kernel...

USN-2997-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-2965-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-3 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...