Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch

An exploitable memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The append path can be erroneously switched from UFO to non-UFO in ipufoappenddata when building an UFO packet with MSGMORE option. If unprivileged user namespaces are available, this flaw can be exploited to gain root privilege...

CVE-2017-1000112

Linux kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch. When building a UFO packet with MSGMORE ipappenddata calls ipufoappenddata to append. However in between two send calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption. In...

PT-2017-10816 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to the fixed version Description: The issue is related to a memory corruption vulnerability due to a UFO to non-UFO path switch. This occurs when building a UFO packet with MSG MORE, and the append path can be...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch CVE-2017-1000112 heap out-of-bounds in AFPACKET sockets CVE-2017-1000111 The mqnotify function in the Linux kernel does not set the sock pointer to NULL upon entry into the retry logic. During a user-space close of a...