UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68174

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix union collision of module and refcnt for dynamic events In 'struct traceeventcall', the 'module' pointer and the 'refcnt' atomic variable share the same memory space in a union. For dynamic events, the union member i...

OProfile 0.9.6 - opcontrol Utility set_event() Local Privilege Escalation

OProfile 0.9.6 - opcontrol Utility setevent Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47652/info OProfile is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to run arbitrary commands with superuser privileges. The following exampl...