Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation vulnerability. This occurs in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the ioctl handling code of the v4l2 video driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker to overwrite a kernel memory from an unprivileged userspace process causing a privilege escalation...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3620-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3420-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3420-1 advisory. It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel when handling L2CAP configuration responses. A physically...