Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2019-202-01)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2019-202-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc. include'compat.inc...

CVE-2019-13272

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a...

CVE-2019-13272

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a...

CVE-2019-13272

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a...

Linux Polkit pkexec helper PTRACE_TRACEME local root exploit

This module exploits an issue in ptracelink in kernel/ptrace.c before Linux kernel 5.1.17. This issue can be exploited from a Linux desktop terminal, but not over an SSH session, as it requires execution from within the context of a user with an active Polkit agent. In the Linux kernel before...