VMWare Workstation On Linux Privilege Escalation

VMWare Workstation on Linux: unprivileged host user - host root privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-4915 This vulnerability permits an unprivileged user on a Linux machine on which VMWare Workstation is installed to gain root privileges. The issue is that, for VMs with audio, the privileged VM host...

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.14 r112924 - Unprivileged Host User to Host Kernel Privilege Escalation via ALSA config

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1141 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged device /dev/vboxdrv and can use that to compromise the host kernel. The...

VirtualBox Unprivilege Host User To Host Kernel Privilege Escalation

VirtualBox: unprivileged host user - host kernel privesc via ALSA config CVE-2017-3576 This is another way to escalate from an unprivileged userspace process into the VirtualBox process, which has an open file descriptor to the privileged device /dev/vboxdrv and can use that to compromise the hos...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0087

The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vulnerabilities in the library...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: alsa-lib security update

An updated alsa-lib package that fixes a flaw that disabled stack execution protection is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The alsa-lib package provides a library of functions for...