CVE-2016-3216

GDI32.dll in the Graphics component in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 allows remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors...

Microsoft Windows Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by the American company Microsoft. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Graphics Component for Microsoft Windows GDI32.dll that originates from a program's failure to properly handle objects in memory. A remote attacker ...

USN-3003-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3001-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-2997-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2996-1)

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3004-1)

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3001-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3001-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3000-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3000-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Apple Mac OSX Kernel - GeForce GPU Driver Stack Buffer Overflow

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=724 nvAPIClient::Escape is the sole external method of nvAcclerator userclient type 0x2a0. It implements its own method and parameter demuxing using the struct-in struct-out buffers. The second dword in the struct in buffer is...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: glibc-2.22-17.fc23

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

CVE-2016-2143

It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit o...

Windows Kernel Object Information Disclosure Bypass KASLR

The vulnerability of Windows operating system’s kernel mode drivers is related to the lack of protection for privileged data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating locally, to obtain confidential information about kernel object addresses and bypass the KASLR protection...

libdwarf 'dwarf_dealloc()' function denial of service vulnerability

libdwarf is a set of tools for reading and writing DWARF2 debugging information. A security vulnerability exists in the 'dwarfdealloc' function of libdwarf, which stems from the program failing to check the 'DwarfPtr' space parameter. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of...

MGASA-2016-0187 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerability

When running in recovery mode, certain invalid XML documents would trigger an infinite recursion in libxml2 that ran until all stack space was exhausted. This vulnerability could have been used to facilitate a denial-of-sevice attack CVE-2016-3627. libxml2 limits the number of recursions an XML...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: glibc-2.23.1-7.fc24

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-2965-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-3 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability (USN-2965-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2965-4 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors,...

DNS reconnaissance tool: Fierce

Fierce is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP space Fierce is a semi-lightweight scanner that helps locate non-contiguous IP space and hostnames against specified domains. It’s really meant as a pre-cursor to nmap, unicornscan, nessus, nikto, etc, since all of those require...

USN-2965-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that the extended Berkeley Packet Filter eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly reference count file descriptors, leading to a use-after-free. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the...