[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: dracut-044-21.fc24

dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels. Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible into the initramfs. dracut contains various modules which are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as...

Google Releases Supplemental Patch for Dirty Cow Vulnerability

Google’s November Android Security Bulletin, released Monday, patched 15 critical vulnerabilities and addressed 85 CVEs overall. But conspicuously absent is a fix for the Linux race condition vulnerability known as Dirty Cow Copy-on-Write that also impacts Android. While Google didn’t issue an...

SUSE-SU-2016:2553-1 Security update for kdump

This update for kdump provides several fixes and enhancements: - Refresh kdumprd if /etc/hosts or /etc/nsswitch.conf is changed. bsc943214 - Add a separate systemd service to rebuild kdumprd at boot. bsc943214 - Improve network setup in the kdump environment by reading configuration from wicked b...

cedarrapids.kernels.milb.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://cedarrapids.kernels.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t492%22/%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27%3C/script%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknow...

CVE-2016-6162

net/core/skbuff.c in the Linux kernel 4.7-rc6 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IPv6 socket operations...

CVE-2014-9867

drivers/media/platform/msm/camerav2/isp/msmispaxiutil.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices does not validate the number of streams, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749629 and Qualcom...

CVE-2016-5400

Memory leak in the airspyprobe function in drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c in the airspy USB driver in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted USB device that emulates many VFLTYPESDR or VFLTYPESUBDEV devices and performs many...

PT-2016-6810

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen versions 4.5.x through 4.7.x Description The issue allows local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service, resulting in a hypervisor and VM crash, by triggering a safety check due to the lack of Supervisor Mode Access...

Fast Browser Vulnerability

KChrome, derived from Google's open source project Chromium and compatible with IE, is a browser with dual kernels of Webkit and IE. Thanks to the high performance of Webkit, you will be faster when browsing the web in normal times. A design vulnerability exists in Crypto Browser that allows...

CVE-2016-1863

The kernel in Apple iOS before 9.3.3, OS X before 10.11.6, tvOS before 9.2.2, and watchOS before 2.2.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4582 and CVE-2016-4653...

CVE-2016-3815

The NVIDIA camera driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 9 devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28522274...

CVE-2014-9787

Integer overflow in drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 7 2013 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28571496 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545764...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the fai-kernels package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

CVE-2016-1583

The ecryptfsprivilegedopen function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service stack memory consumption via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling...

CVE-2016-0758

Integer overflow in lib/asn1decoder.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted ASN.1 data...

CVE-2016-2187

The gtcoprobe function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor...

CVE-2016-2117

The atl2probe function in drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading packet data...

Linux Embedded Firmware Dynamic Analysis: FIRMADYNE

FIRMADYNE is an automated and scalable system for performing emulation and dynamic analysis of Linux-based embedded firmware. It includes the following components: modified kernels MIPS: v2.6.32 , ARM: v4.1 , v3.10 for instrumentation of firmware execution; a userspace NVRAM library to emulate a...

CVE-2016-2550

The Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging incorrect tracking of descriptor ownership and sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an...

CVE-2016-2543

The sndseqioctlremoveevents function in sound/core/seq/seqclientmgr.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not verify FIFO assignment before proceeding with FIFO clearing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted ioctl call...