2020 Was a Secure Election

Over at Lawfare: "2020 Is An Election Security Success Story So Far." What’s more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth. It was only a few months ago that professionals and analysts who monitor election administration were alarmed at how badly unprepared the country was for voting during a...

PT-2020-6011 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux Kernel affected versions not specified Description: A use-after-free flaw was found in the io uring in Linux kernel, where a local attacker with user privilege could cause a denial of service problem on the system. The issue results fro...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4527-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4527-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Conexant 23885 TV card device driver for the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in some error conditions. A local...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25221

getgatepage in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7 allows privilege escalation because of incorrect reference counting caused by gate page mishandling of the struct page that backs the vsyscall page. The result is a refcount underflow. This can be triggered by any 64-bit...

CVE-2020-25221

getgatepage in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7 allows privilege escalation because of incorrect reference counting caused by gate page mishandling of the struct page that backs the vsyscall page. The result is a refcount underflow. This can be triggered by any 64-bit...

CVE-2020-25221

getgatepage in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7 allows privilege escalation because of incorrect reference counting caused by gate page mishandling of the struct page that backs the vsyscall page. The result is a refcount underflow. This can be triggered by any 64-bit...

CVE-2020-25221

CVE-2020-25221 affects Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7. The vulnerability arises in get_gate_page() implemented in mm/gup.c, due to incorrect reference counting of the backing struct page for the vsyscall page, causing a refcount underflow. It can be triggered by any 64-bit process that...

PT-2020-16024 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions 5.7.x through 5.8.6 Description: The issue is related to incorrect reference counting of the struct page that backs the vsyscall page, caused by gate page mishandling in the get gate page function in mm/gup.c. This resul...

USN-4484-1 linux-hwe, linux-aws-5.3, linux-gke-5.3, linux-raspi2-5.3 vulnerability

It was discovered that the cgroup v2 subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly gain administrative privileges...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2020-52622)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the 'vfsubdentryopen' function in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability stems from an implementation of aufs that does not properly...

The vulnerabilities of the functions rx_queue_add_kobject() and netdev_queue_add_kobject() (net/core/net-sysfs.c) in the Linux kernel allow attackers to compromise data integrity.

The vulnerability of the functions rxqueueaddkobject and netdevqueueaddkobject net/core/net-sysfs.c in the Linux kernel is related to errors in pointer counting in the networking subsystem. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise data integrity...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20811

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. In rxqueueaddkobject and netdevqueueaddkobject in net/core/net-sysfs.c, a reference count is mishandled, aka CID-a3e23f719f5c...

Fedora: Security Advisory for json-c (FEDORA-2020-847ad856ab)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CVE-2019-15794 Reference counting error in overlayfs/shiftfs error path when used in conjuction with aufs

Overlayfs in the Linux kernel and shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, both replace vma-vmfile in their mmap handlers. On error the original value is not restored, and the reference is put for the file to which vmfile points. On...

systemd-machined Incorrect Reference Decrement

systemd: systemd-machined decrements reference count when references still held I've been looking at the version of systemd shipped in Fedora 31 approximately ef677436aa203c24816021dd698b57f219f0ff64 I noticed that systemd-machined caches image objects, and uses reference counting to keep track o...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for dhcp (EulerOS-SA-2019-1443)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Kernel: KVM: potential use-after-free via kvm_ioctl_create_device()

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements its device control API. While creating a device via kvmioctlcreatedevice, the device holds a reference to a VM object, later this reference is transferred to the caller's file descriptor table. If suc...

USN-4204-1 python-psutil vulnerability

Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain reference counting operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause psutil to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 19.10 - Refcount Underflow and Type Confusion in shiftfs Exploit

Tested on Ubuntu 19.10, kernel "5.3.0-19-generic 20-Ubuntu". Ubuntu ships a filesystem "shiftfs" in fs/shiftfs.c in the kernel tree that doesn't exist upstream. This filesystem can be mounted from user namespaces, meaning that this is attack surface from unprivileged userspace in the default...

Ubuntu 19.10 - Refcount Underflow and Type Confusion in shiftfs

Ubuntu 19.10 - Refcount Underflow and Type Confusion in shiftfs Tested on Ubuntu 19.10, kernel "5.3.0-19-generic 20-Ubuntu". Ubuntu ships a filesystem "shiftfs" in fs/shiftfs.c in the kernel tree that doesn't exist upstream. This filesystem can be mounted from user namespaces, meaning that this i...