Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (SOL16477)

The DNS resolution functionality in the CIFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35, when CONFIGCIFSDFSUPCALL is enabled, relies on a user's keyring for the dnsresolver upcall in the cifs.upcall userspace helper, which allows local users to spoof the results of DNS queries and perform...