USN-3106-4 linux-snapdragon vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

USN-3106-3 linux-raspi2 vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

USN-3105-1 linux vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

Linux SELinux - W+X Protection Bypass via AIO

Linux SELinux - W+X Protection Bypass via AIO / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=854 SELinux has a set of permissions that can be used to prevent processes from creating executable memory mappings that contain data controlled by the process PROCESSEXECMEM,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

Code injection

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

PT-2016-3547

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.13 Description The issue is related to the Linux kernel's handling of DMA mappings on ARM platforms. It does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which could allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted...

CVE-2014-9888: Undefined Security Weakness

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2016-2067

drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the MSM graphics driver aka GPU driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, mishandles the KGSLMEMFLAGSGPUREADONLY flag, which allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2067

drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the MSM graphics driver aka GPU driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, mishandles the KGSLMEMFLAGSGPUREADONLY flag, which allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging...

CVE-2016-2067

drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the MSM graphics driver aka GPU driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, mishandles the KGSLMEMFLAGSGPUREADONLY flag, which allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging...

Xen Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-02455)

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product developed at the University of Cambridge, UK. The product enables different and incompatible operating systems to run on the same computer and supports runtime migration to ensure uptime and avoid downtime. A security vulnerability exists in...

Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-8.fc22 (2016-f8121efdac)

x86: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270 1309324 VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271 1309323 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security...

Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-8.fc23 (2016-e48f4bd14f)

x86: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270 1309324 VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271 1309323 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security...

Xen Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-01331)

Xen is a virtualization technology developed by the University of Cambridge that can be used in the Linux kernel, allowing multiple operating systems to run simultaneously. A denial of service vulnerability exists in versions prior to Xen 4.6.x, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2270

Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host reboot via vectors related to multiple mappings of MMIO pages with different cachability settings...

CVE-2016-2270

Xen 4.6.x and earlier allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host reboot via vectors related to multiple mappings of MMIO pages with different cachability settings...