CVE-2016-9576

The blkrqmapuseriov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 does not properly restrict the type of iterator, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service use-after-free by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device...

Design/Logic Flaw

The blkrqmapuseriov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 does not properly restrict the type of iterator, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service use-after-free by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device...

Android get_user/put_user Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a missing check in the getuser and putuser API functions in the linux kernel before 3.5.5. The missing checks on these functions allow an unprivileged user to read and write kernel memory. This exploit first reads the kernel memory to identify the commitcreds and...

Multiple Apple Products IOKit Component Memory Leak Vulnerability

Apple iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices; watchOS is a smartwatch operating system; and IOKit is a component that reads system information. A security vulnerability exists in the IOKit component of several Apple...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3159-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Multiple Apple Products Kernel Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; watchOS is a smartwatch operating system. kernel is a kernel component. A security vulnerability exists in the Kernel component of several Apple products. An attacker could exploit...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3160-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3160-1 advisory. CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A loc...

Apple macOS Sierra IOFireWireFamily Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple macOS Sierra is a suite of specialized operating systems for Mac computers developed by Apple Inc. in the U.S. IOFireWireFamily is one of the components used to identify input and output devices. A security vulnerability exists in the IOFireWireFamily component in Apple macOS Sierra version...

USN-3160-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procf...

USN-3160-1 linux vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procf...

USN-3159-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procfs environread function in the Linux kernel, leading to an integer underflow. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory...

USN-3159-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procfs environread function in the Linux kernel, leading to an integer underflow. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory...

Apple macOS Sierra IOKit Component Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple macOS Sierra is a specialized operating system developed by Apple for Mac computers.IOKit is one of the components that reads system information. A security vulnerability exists in the IOKit component in Apple macOS Sierra versions prior to 10.12.2. An attacker could exploit the vulnerabili...

Apple macOS Sierra IOAcceleratorFamily Component Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple macOS Sierra is a specialized operating system developed by Apple for Mac computers.IOAcceleratorFamily is one of the IO acceleration management components. A security vulnerability exists in the IOAcceleratorFamily component in Apple macOS Sierra versions prior to 10.12.2. An attacker can...

Apple macOS Sierra IOSurface Component Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple macOS Sierra is a specialized operating system developed by Apple for Mac computers.IOSurface is one of the programming framework components. A security vulnerability exists in the IOSurface component in Apple macOS Sierra versions prior to 10.12.2. A local attacker could exploit the...

CVE-2016-5829

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's hiddev driver. This flaw could allow a local attacker to corrupt kernel memory, possible privilege escalation or crashing the system...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-1426)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.36 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-1350: The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended...

Kaspersky Internet Security <= 16.0.0.614 KLDISK Driver Multiple Kernel Memory Disclosure Vulnerabilities - Windows

Kaspersky Internet Security is prone to multiple kernel memory disclosure vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

CVE-2016-7916

Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc//environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7916

Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc//environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete...