kernel: Fork of large process causes memory corruption

It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit o...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-642.11.1 - mm close FOLL MAPPRIVATE race Larry Woodman 1385116 1385117 CVE-2016-5195 2.6.32-642.10.1 - scsi fnic: Fix to cleanup aborted IO to avoid device being offlined by mid-layer Maurizio Lombardi 1382620 1341298 2.6.32-642.9.1 - net vlan: Fix FCOEMTU support Maurizio Lombardi 1381592...

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...

Android Security Bulletin—November 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Google devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Google device firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer...

Windows-Exploit-Suggester v3.2 - Compares a targets patch levels against the Microsoft vulnerability database

This tool compares a targets patch levels against the Microsoft vulnerability database in order to detect potential missing patches on the target. It also notifies the user if there are public exploits and Metasploit modules available for the missing bulletins. It requires the 'systeminfo' comman...

Android Security Bulletin—September 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

ded The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site...

Siemens IP-based CCTV Cameras Credentials Disclosure Vulnerability (SSA-284765) - Active Check

Siemens IP-based CCTV camera devices are prone to a credentials disclosure vulnerability. 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...

Android Security Bulletin—August 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site...

The vulnerability of the International Components for Unicode library allows a attacker to trigger a service failure or execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the resolveImplicitLevels function common/ubidi.c in the implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm of the International Components for Unicode library is caused by a buffer overflow in the dynamic memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to caus...

July 2016 Android Security Bulletin

The frail world of the Android ecosystem has taken some hits in the past week with the disclosure of a full disk encryption bypass vulnerability and the arrival of the HummingBad malware. The FDE bypass highlighted the need to keep Android patch levels current, but as Duo Labs statistics point ou...

Microsoft Windows PDF Library JPEG2000 COD Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows PDF Library. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists...

CVE-2016-2143

It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit o...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4480

The guestwalktables function in arch/x86/mm/guestwalk.c in Xen 4.6.x and earlier does not properly handle the Page Size PS page table entry bit at the L4 and L3 page table levels, which might allow local guest OS users to gain privileges via a crafted mapping of memory...

Linux kernel-table levels denial of service vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the fork implementation of Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5 on the s390 platform, which stems from the program failing to properl...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2143

The fork implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 on s390 platforms mishandles the case of four page-table levels, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application, related to...

Design/Logic Flaw

The fork implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 on s390 platforms mishandles the case of four page-table levels, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application, related to...

PT-2016-5026 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5 on s390 platforms Description: The fork implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles the case of four page-table levels, allowing local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have...

Find Differences 150 levels 2 - Base64 encoded String, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Find Differences 150 levels 2 published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect AIX

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Wed Mar 2 08:43:07 CST 2016 The most recent version of this document is available here: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssladvisory17.asc https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssladvisory17.asc...

The vulnerability of the FFmpeg multimedia library, which allows a intruder to trigger a service failure or cause other effects

The vulnerability of the ffdwtdecode function libavcodec/jpeg2000dwt.c in the multimedia library FFmpeg exists due to the lack of checks for the number of decomposition levels before performing the discrete wavelet transformation. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cau...