Kernel Vulnerability

A vulnerability exists in the kernel of PAN-OS that may result in an elevation of privilege. This issue is publicly known as Dirty COW ref PAN-68074 / CVE-2016-5195. PAN-OS may be impacted by the Dirty COW CVE-2016-5195 attack. A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory...

OpenSSH Vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks makes use of a the OpenSSH tool. CVE-2016-6210 was recently confirmed to be applicable to the version in use by PAN-OS. Ref 100977/CVE-2016-6210. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to guess usernames defined as system administrators on the firewall. This issu...