kernel: pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes

It is possible for a single process to cause an OOM condition by filling large pipes with data that are never read. A typical process filling 4096 pipes with 1 MB of data will use 4 GB of memory and there can be multiple such processes, up to a per-user-limit...

SUSE-SU-2017:0246-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 15 for SLE 12

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5254 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-9806: Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

3.10.0-514.6.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-514.6.1 - net sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it Hangbin Liu...

CVE-2016-8456

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

SUSE-SU-2016:3206-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 1 for SLE 12 SP2

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.21-81 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-8655: A race condition in the afpacket packetsetring function could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or gain privileges bsc1012759. - CVE-2016-9555: The sctpsfootb...

SUSE-SU-2016:3146-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP 2 kernel was updated to fix two security issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-9576: A use-after-free vulnerability in the SCSI generic driver allows users with write access to /dev/sg or /dev/bsg to elevate their privileges bsc1013604. -...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-772)

CVE-2016-8645 kernel: a BUG statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcpinput.c It was discovered that the Linux kernel since 3.6-rc1 with net.ipv4.tcpfastopen; set to 1 can hit BUG statement in tcpcollapse function after making a number of certain syscalls leading to a possible system crash. CVE-2016-86...

CVE-2015-8970

crypto/algifskcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AFALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted applicatio...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.67 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc.c in the Linux kernel used an incorrect buffer size for certain timeout data, which allowe...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2016:2766-01

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...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Extended Update Support. 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...

NVIDIA Driver - No Bounds Checking in Escape 0x7000170 Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=936 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x7000170 lacks proper bounds checks for the variable size input escape data, and relies on a user provided size as the upper bound for writing...

NVIDIA Driver - Missing Bounds Check in Escape 0x70000d5 Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=944 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x70000d5 lacks bounds checks: ... if gsavedsize escape-size = gsavedsize; if unsigned intgsavedsize 0 do v5 = v2++; escape-datav5 = globalarrayv5...

CVE-2016-7910

Use-after-free vulnerability in the diskseqfstop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed...

NVIDIA Driver - No Bounds Checking in Escape 0x7000170

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=936 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x7000170 lacks proper bounds checks for the variable size input escape data, and relies on a user provided size as the upper bound for writing output. Crashing context with PoC Win 10 x64 with...

NVIDIA Driver - Missing Bounds Check in Escape 0x70000d5

NVIDIA Driver - Missing Bounds Check in Escape 0x70000d5 Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=944 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x70000d5 lacks bounds checks: ... if gsavedsize escape-size = gsavedsize; if unsigned intgsavedsize 0 do v5 = v2++; escape-datav5 =...

NVIDIA Driver - No Bounds Checking in Escape 0x7000170

NVIDIA Driver - No Bounds Checking in Escape 0x7000170 Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=936 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x7000170 lacks proper bounds checks for the variable size input escape data, and relies on a user provided size as the upper bound for writin...

NVIDIA Driver - Missing Bounds Check in Escape 0x70000d5

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=944 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for 0x70000d5 lacks bounds checks: ... if gsavedsize escape-size = gsavedsize; if unsigned intgsavedsize 0 do v5 = v2++; escape-datav5 = globalarrayv5 + 77; while v2 size 0 do ii = i++; globalarrayii +...

SUSE-SU-2016:2637-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.59-6045 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: A local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE was fixed, which is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004419. - CVE-2016-8666: The IP stack in the Linux kernel allowed...

SUSE-SU-2016:2634-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 3 for SLE 12 SP1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.53-6030 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2016-5195: A local privilege escalation using MAPPRIVATE was fixed, which is reportedly exploited in the wild bsc1004419. - CVE-2016-8666: The IP stack in the Linux kernel allowed...