Systemd 228 (SUSE 12 SP2 / Ubuntu Touch 15.04) - Local Privilege Escalation

/ source: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4 This is a heads up for a trivial systemd local root exploit, that was silently fixed in the upstream git as: commit 06eeacb6fe029804f296b065b3ce91e796e1cd0e Author: .... Date: Fri Jan 29 23:36:08 2016 +0200 basic: fix touch creatin...

Systemd 228 (SUSE 12 SP2 Ubuntu Touch 15.04) - Local Privilege Escalation

Systemd 228 SUSE 12 SP2 Ubuntu Touch 15.04 - Local Privilege Escalation / source: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/4 This is a heads up for a trivial systemd local root exploit, that was silently fixed in the upstream git as: commit 06eeacb6fe029804f296b065b3ce91e796e1cd0e...

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: 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 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...

USN-3161-3 linux-raspi2 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-2016-1575

The overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not properly maintain POSIX ACL xattr data, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a group-writable setgid directory...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2976-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. For the PowerPC64 a new 'bigmem' flavor has been added to support big Power machines. FATE319026 The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc....

CVE-2016-9775

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u7 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9775

The postrm script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1deb7u3 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.45+dfsg-1deb8u1 on Debian jessie, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u7 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3147-1)

Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not clear the setgid bit during a setxattr call. A local attacker could use this to possibly elevate group privileges. CVE-2016-7097 Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID...

USN-3147-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not clear the setgid bit during a setxattr call. A local attacker could use this to possibly elevate group privileges. CVE-2016-7097 Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID...

USN-3146-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the getuserasmex implementation in the Linux kernel for x86/x8664 contained extended asm statements that were incompatible with the exception table. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-9644 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered...

Ubuntu 14.0415.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr SetGID Privilege Escalation

Ubuntu 14.0415.10 - 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...

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...

GLSA-201611-10 : libuv: Privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201611-10 libuv: Privilege escalation It was discovered that libuv does not call setgroups before calling setuid/setgid. If this is not called, then even though the uid has been dropped, there may still be groups associated that...

Linux kernel elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-09544)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the file system implementation in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.8.2, which stems from a program incorrectly saving the setgid bit duri...

CVE-2016-7097

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 preserves the setgid bit during a setxattr call, which allows local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid program with restrictions on execute permissions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7097

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 preserves the setgid bit during a setxattr call, which allows local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid program with restrictions on execute permissions...

CVE-2016-7097

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 preserves the setgid bit during a setxattr call, which allows local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid program with restrictions on execute permissions...