Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : NTFS-3G vulnerability (USN-3182-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3182-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly filtered environment variables when using the modprobe utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to lo...

USN-3182-1 ntfs-3g vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly filtered environment variables when using the modprobe utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to load arbitrary kernel modules...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0358

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation...

CVE-2017-0358

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation...

DavFS2: Local privilege escalation

Background DavFS2 is a file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. Description DavFS2 installs “/usr/sbin/mount.davfs” as setuid root. This utility uses “system” to call “/sbin/modprobe”. While the call to “modprobe” itself cannot be manipulated, a local...

Linux Kernel 4.6.2 (Ubuntu 16.04.1) - IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE Local Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 4.6.2 Ubuntu 16.04.1 - IP6TSOSETREPLACE Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Title: Linux kernel = 4.6.2 - Local Privileges Escalation via IP6TSOSETREPLACE compat setsockopt call Date: 2016.10.8 Exploit Author: Qian Zhang@MarvelTeam Qihoo 360 Version: Linux kernel = 4.6.2 Tested on:...

ABRT sosreport Privilege Escalation

This module attempts to gain root privileges on RHEL systems with a vulnerable version of Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ABRT configured as the crash handler. sosreport uses an insecure temporary directory, allowing local users to write to arbitrary files CVE-2015-5287. This module uses a symlink...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20151022)

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host...

openSUSE Security Update : busybox (openSUSE-2015-433)

Busybox was updated to fix one security issue. The following vulnerability was fixed : - CVE-2014-9645: fixed a potential modprobe filter bypassing rule by filtering / boo914660 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20150513) (Venom)

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller FDC handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileg...

[ MDVSA-2015:031 ] busybox

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:031 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : busybox Date : February 5, 2015 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability: The modprobe...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : busybox (MDVSA-2015:031)

Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability : The modprobe command in busybox before 1.23.0 uses the basename of the module argument as the module to load, allowing arbitrary modules, even when some kernel subsystems try to prevent this CVE-2014-9645. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Updated busybox packages fix CVE-2014-9645

Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability: The modprobe command in busybox before 1.23.0 uses the basename of the module argument as the module to load, allowing arbitrary modules, even when some kernel subsystems try to prevent this CVE-2014-9645...

MGASA-2015-0041 Updated busybox packages fix CVE-2014-9645

Updated busybox packages fix security vulnerability: The modprobe command in busybox before 1.23.0 uses the basename of the module argument as the module to load, allowing arbitrary modules, even when some kernel subsystems try to prevent this CVE-2014-9645...

Linux modutils 2.3.9 modprobe Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source : http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1936/info Modutils is a component of many linux systems that includes tools for using loadable kernel modules. One of these tools, modprobe, loads a set of modules that correspond to a provided name passed at the command...

Scientific Linux Security Update : augeas on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131121)

Multiple flaws were found in the way Augeas handled configuration files when updating them. An application using Augeas to update configuration files in a directory that is writable to by a different user for example, an application running as root that is updating files in a directory owned by a...

RHEL 6 : augeas (RHSA-2013:1537)

Updated augeas packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: augeas security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated augeas packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

kernel: b43: format string leaking into error msgs

Format string vulnerability in the b43requestfirmware function in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c in the Broadcom B43 wireless driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and including format string specifiers in an fwpostfix modprobe...

davfs2 1.4.6/1.4.7 - Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits davfs2 1.4.6/1.4.7 local privilege escalation exploit Bug Description: davfs2 is a Linux utility which allows OS users to mount a remote webdav server as a local partition. The bug is well documented at...