Linux Kernel < 4.4.0/ < 4.8.0 (Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 / Linux Mint 17/18 / Zorin) Local Privilege

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits // A proof-of-concept local root exploit for CVE-2017-1000112. // Includes KASLR and SMEP bypasses. No SMAP bypass. // Tested on: // - Ubuntu trusty 4.4.0 kernels // - Ubuntu xenial 4.4.0 and 4.8.0 kernels // - Linux Mint rosa 4.4.0 kernels //...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13648

In the Linux kernel through 5.2.1 on the powerpc platform, when hardware transactional memory is disabled, a local user can cause a denial of service TM Bad Thing exception and system crash via a sigreturn system call that sends a crafted signal frame. This affects arch/powerpc/kernel/signal32.c...

USN-4041-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon update

USN-4017-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the update introduced a regression that interfered with networking applications that setup very low SOSNDBUF values. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Jonathan Looney discovered that t...

USN-3981-2 linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oracle vulnerabilities

USN-3981-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and for the Linux Azure kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai H...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

USN-3777-3 linux-azure vulnerabilities

USN-3777-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 %LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for Azure Cloud systems. Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6559

The Linux kernel, as used in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10, allows local users to obtain names of files in which they would not normally be able to access via an overlayfs mount inside of a user namespace...

USN-3762-2 linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp vulnerabilities

USN-3762-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that the VirtIO subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly...

CVE-2017-13216

In ashmemioctl of ashmem.c, there is an out-of-bounds write due to insufficient locking when accessing asma. This could lead to a local elevation of privilege enabling code execution as a privileged process with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

USN-3522-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerability

USN-3522-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect...

USN-3509-3 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 regression

USN-3509-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Unfortunately, it also introduced a regression that prevented the Ceph network filesystem from being used. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Mohamed Ghannam...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000405

The Linux Kernel versions 2.6.38 through 4.14 have a problematic use of pmdmkdirty in the touchpmd function inside the THP implementation. touchpmd can be reached by getuserpages. In such case, the pmd will become dirty. This scenario breaks the new canfollowwritepmd's logic - pmd can become dirt...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14051

An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash by leveraging root access...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8066

drivers/net/can/usb/gsusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.2 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIGVMAPSTACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than on...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8068

drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.11 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIGVMAPSTACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual pag...

Ubuntu Linux kernel package integer overflow vulnerability

Ubuntu is a desktop-oriented GNU/Linux operating system developed by Canonical and the Ubuntu Foundation, of which the Linux kernel package is a component. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in version 3.16.0-28 of the Linux kernel package on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release. Due to the program...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2583

The loadsegmentdescriptor implementation in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.5 improperly emulates a "MOV SS, NULL selector" instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash or gain guest OS privileges via a crafted application...

RunC Exec Vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Medium Vendor Open Containers Initiative Description RunC allowed additional container processes via runc exec to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3044

The Linux kernel component in IBM PowerKVM 2.1 before 2.1.1.3-65.10 and 3.1 before 3.1.0.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS infinite loop and hang via unspecified vectors...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6327

drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ibsrpt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash by using an ABORTTASK command to abort a device write operation...