Google Upspin Secure File-Sharing Released to Open Source

Google has released to open source new file-sharing interfaces and protocols it calls Upspin that allow users to securely share files using a global namespace rather than uploading and downloading content or sharing it first with a web-based service. Upspin is largely a consumer tool, Google said...

openSUSE Security Update : open-vm-tools (openSUSE-2017-276)

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues : - Updated to 10.1.0 stable release boo1011057 + vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility. + gtk3 support + Common Agent Framework CAF + guest authentication with xmlsec1 + FreeBSD support + sub-command to push updated network information...

Adobe Reader DC XSLT namespace-alias Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within XSLT's...

GitLab: Users can download old project exports due to unclaimed namespace

TL;DR: Happy new year and happy birthday, @douwem! Vulnerability details When a user renames its namespace, another user can claim the namespace and download old export files from the victim. The attack scenario here is that someone would scrape existing GitLab namespaces users and groups, which...

Code injection

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption and deadlock via MSBIND mount system calls, as demonstrated by a loop that triggers exponential growth in the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6213

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption and deadlock via MSBIND mount system calls, as demonstrated by a loop that triggers exponential growth in the...

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...

Multiple CVEs: httpoxy | Cloud Foundry

Multiple CVEs: httpoxy Low Vendor Cloud Foundry Versions Affected Go Buildpack versions prior to 1.7.10 PHP Buildpack versions prior to 4.3.17 Description httpoxy is a set of vulnerabilities that affect application code running in CGI, or CGI-like environments. It involves to a namespace conflict...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vulnerabilities of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer browsers, which allow attackers to escalate their privileges

The vulnerabilities of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer are related to errors in access control for namespace resources. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow a malicious actor to enhance their privileges remotely...

Vulnerabilities of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer browsers, which allow attackers to escalate their privileges

The vulnerabilities of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer are related to errors in access control of namespace resources. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow a malicious actor to enhance their privileges using undefined vectors...