CVE-2021-3748

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to numbuffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting i...

CVE-2021-3748

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to numbuffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting i...

golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

There's a flaw in golang's syscall.ForkExec interface. An attacker who manages to first cause a file descriptor exhaustion for the process, then cause syscall.ForkExec to be called repeatedly, could compromise data integrity and/or confidentiality in a somewhat uncontrolled way in programs linked...

ROS-20220318-03

A vulnerability in the Polkit library is related to process file descriptor exhaustion in polkit. Exploitation exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform a denial of service DoS attack...

AZL-9068 CVE-2021-20257 affecting package qemu for versions less than 6.2.0-2

An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000 NIC emulator of the QEMU. This issue occurs while processing transmits tx descriptors in processtxdesc if various descriptor fields are initialized with invalid values. This flaw allows a guest to consume CPU cycles on the host, resulting in a denial o...

golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

There's a flaw in golang's syscall.ForkExec interface. An attacker who manages to first cause a file descriptor exhaustion for the process, then cause syscall.ForkExec to be called repeatedly, could compromise data integrity and/or confidentiality in a somewhat uncontrolled way in programs linked...

Exploit for Improper Initialization in Linux Linux_Kernel

CVE-2022-0847 Dirty Pipe linux kernel lifting analysis toc...

An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.

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USN-5304-1 policykit-1 vulnerability

Kevin Backhouse discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled file descriptors. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : PolicyKit vulnerability (USN-5304-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5304-1 advisory. Kevin Backhouse discovered that PolicyKit incorrectly handled file descriptors. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PolicyKit to crash,...

File Descriptor Leak

Possible sensitive files Vulnerability description: A possible sensitive file has been found. This file is not directly linked from the website. This check looks for common sensitive resources like password files, configuration files, log files, include files, statistics data, database dumps. Eac...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2022-0080)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Updated polkit packages fix security vulnerability

There is a file descriptor leak in polkit, which can enable an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to file descriptor exhaustion. CVE-2021-4115...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : polkit (openSUSE-SU-2022:0525-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0525-1 advisory. - There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:0525-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2022:0525-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0525-1 advisory. - There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highe...

CVE-2021-4115

There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being...

CVE-2021-4115

There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-4115

There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being...

CVE-2021-4115

There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being...