Linux Kernel SO_SNDBUFFORCE / SO_RCVBUFFORCE Local Privilege Escalation

// CAPNETADMIN - root LPE exploit for CVE-2016-9793 // No KASLR, SMEP or SMAP bypass included // Affected kernels: 3.11 - 4.8 // Tested in QEMU only // https://github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits/tree/master/CVE-2016-9793 // // Usage: // gcc -pthread exploit.c -o exploit // chown guest:guest exploit...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3169-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3169-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3169-3 advisory. Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3169-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3169-4 advisory. Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel...

USN-3169-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-9794 Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer...

Memory corruption

The socksetsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 mishandles negative values of sksndbuf and skrcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN...