Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A race condition was found in the Linux kernel, present since v3.14-rc1 through v4.12. The race happens between threads of inotifyhandleevent and vfsrename while running the rename operation against the same file. As a result of the race the nex...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2017-1160)

According to the version of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel, present since v3.14-rc1 through v4.12. The race happens between threads of inotifyhandleevent and...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2017:2473-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

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

Kernel security update: CVE-2017-7533; Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch 28.0 for Virtuozzo 7.0.x

The cumulative Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch was updated with a security fix. The patch applies to Virtuozzo kernels 3.10.0-327.18.2.vz7.15.2 Virtuozzo 7.0.0, 3.10.0-327.36.1.vz7.18.7 Virtuozzo 7.0.1, 3.10.0-327.36.1.vz7.20.18 Virtuozzo 7.0.3, 3.10.0-514.16.1.vz7.30.10 Virtuozzo 7.0.4,...

Race condition

Race condition in the fsnotify implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.12.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted application that leverages simultaneous execution of the inotifyhandleevent and vfsrename functions...

CVE-2017-7533

Race condition in the fsnotify implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.12.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted application that leverages simultaneous execution of the inotifyhandleevent and vfsrename functions...

CVE-2017-7533

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel, present since v3.14-rc1 through v4.12. The race happens between threads of inotifyhandleevent and vfsrename while running the rename operation against the same file. As a result of the race the next slab data or the slab's free list pointer can be...