Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3161-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-1 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3161-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-4 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3161-4)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3162-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3162-2)

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3160-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3160-1 advisory. CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A loc...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3162-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 ifdescription...

USN-3161-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3161-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY...

USN-3161-1 linux vulnerabilities

Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2015-8964 It was discovered that the Video For Linux Two v4l2 implementation in the Linux kernel d...

USN-3160-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procf...

CVE-2016-4581

fs/pnode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 does not properly traverse a mount propagation tree in a certain case involving a slave mount, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted series of mount system calls...

openSUSE Security Update : util-linux (openSUSE-2016-1446)

This update for util-linux fixes the following issues : - Consider redundant slashes when comparing paths bsc982331, util-linux-libmount-ignore-redundant-slashes.patch, affects backport of util-linux-libmount-cifs-ismounted.patch. - Use upstream compatibility patches for --show-pt-geometry with...

CVE-2016-1576

The overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not properly restrict the mount namespace, which allows local users to gain privileges by mounting an overlayfs filesystem on top of a FUSE filesystem, and then executing a crafted setuid program...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : util-linux (SUSE-SU-2016:2954-1)

This update for util-linux fixes the following issues : - Consider redundant slashes when comparing paths bsc982331, util-linux-libmount-ignore-redundant-slashes.patch, affects backport of util-linux-libmount-cifs-ismounted.patch. - Use upstream compatibility patches for --show-pt-geometry with...

CVE-2015-1328

CVE-2015-1328 affects the Linux kernel overlayfs by failing to properly check permissions for file creation in the upperdir when overlayfs is allowed in an arbitrary mount namespace. This enables local users to escalate to root on systems with overlayfs and user namespaces enabled, notably Ubuntu...

CVE-2015-1328

The overlayfs implementation in the linux aka Linux kernel package before 3.19.0-21.21 in Ubuntu through 15.04 does not properly check permissions for file creation in the upper filesystem directory, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging a configuration in which overlayfs i...

Ubuntu 14.04/15.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr SetGID Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/UserNamespaceOverlayfsXattrSetgidPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: Linux user namespace allows to mount file systems as normal user, including the overlayfs. As many of those features were not designed with namespaces in mind, this...

openSUSE Security Update : util-linux (openSUSE-2016-1317)

This update for util-linux fixes a number of bugs and one minor security issue. The following minor vulnerability was fixed : - CVE-2016-5011: Infinite loop DoS in libblkid while parsing DOS partition bsc988361 The following bugs were fixed : - bsc987176: When mounting a subfolder of a CIFS share...

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...

SUSE-SU-2016:2764-1 Security update for util-linux

This update for util-linux fixes a number of bugs and one minor security issue. The following minor vulnerability was fixed: - CVE-2016-5011: Infinite loop DoS in libblkid while parsing DOS partition bsc988361 The following bugs were fixed: - bsc987176: When mounting a subfolder of a CIFS share,...