Abrt / Apport Race Condition / Symlink

Hello, this is CVE-2015-1318 and CVE-2015-1862 essentially the same bugs in two different implementations, apport and abrt respectively. These were discussed on the vendors list last week. If the first character of kern.corepattern sysctl is a pipe, the kernel will invoke the specified program, a...

Linux Kernel 3.8.x - open-time Capability file_ns_capable() Privilege Escalation

No description provided by source. / usernsrootsploit.c by / / Copyright c 2013 Andrew Lutomirski. All rights reserved. / / You may use, modify, and redistribute this code under the GPLv2. / define GNUSOURCE include unistd.h include sched.h include sys/types.h include sys/wait.h include sys/mman....

Linux Kernel 3.8.x - open-time Capability file_ns_capable() Local Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 3.8.x - open-time Capability filenscapable Local Privilege Escalation / usernsrootsploit.c by / / Copyright c 2013 Andrew Lutomirski. All rights reserved. / / You may use, modify, and redistribute this code under the GPLv2. / define GNUSOURCE include include include include include...

CVE-2013-0231

The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a denial of service via a large number of kernel log messages. NOTE: some of these details are...

CVE-2013-0231

The pcibackenablemsi function in the PCI backend driver drivers/xen/pciback/confspacecapabilitymsi.c in Xen for the Linux kernel 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to cause a denial of service via a large number of kernel log messages. NOTE: some of these details are...

CVE-2013-0231

CVE-2013-0231 is discussed in connected advisories as affecting the Xen PCI backend: the pciback_enable_msi function in drivers/xen/pciback/conf_space_capability_msi.c on Linux kernels 2.6.18 and 3.8 allows guest OS users with PCI device access to trigger a denial of service by generating a large...