Android Zero-Day Bug Opens Door to Privilege Escalation Attack, Researchers Warn

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Android operating system, which if exploited could give a local attacker escalated privileges on a target’s device. The specific flaw exists within the v4l2 Video4Linux 2 driver, which is the Android media driver...

(0Day) Google Android v4l2 Double Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Google Android. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the v4l2 driver. The...

Linux kernel resource management error vulnerability (CNVD-2019-32358)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A resource management error vulnerability exists in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c file in Linux kernel versions prior to 5.2.6. The vulnerability stems from...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c does not properly allocate memory...

CVE-2019-15211

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c does not properly allocate memory...

CVE-2019-15211: Use After Free

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c does not properly allocate memory...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15211

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c does not properly allocate memory...

PT-2019-3114 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.2.6 Description: The issue is related to a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver. This is due to improper memory allocation in...

Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation vulnerability. This occurs in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the ioctl handling code of the v4l2 video driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker to overwrite a kernel memory from an unprivileged userspace process causing a privilege escalation...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1539)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution ...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1476)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in DCCP socket code affecting the Linux kernel since 2.6.16. This vulnerabili...

CVE-2018-9538

In V4L2SliceVideoDecodeAccelerator::Dequeue of v4l2slicevideodecodeaccelerator.cc, there is a possible out of bounds read of a function pointer due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is no...

CVE-2018-9538

CVE-2018-9538 affects Android (8.1, 9) and relates to V4L2SliceVideoDecodeAccelerator::Dequeue, where an incorrect bounds check enables a possible out-of-bounds read of a function pointer. This could allow local escalation of privilege with no user interaction. The vulnerability is associated wit...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1516-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9250 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1526-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52122 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Inte...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180508) (Meltdown)

Security Fixes : - hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling CVE-2017-5754 - Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS CVE-2018-8897 - kernel: nfsd: Incorrect handling of long RPC replies CVE-2017-7645 - kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket CVE-2017-8824 -...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 each vulnerability from th...

Debian DLA-1369-1 : linux security update (Spectre)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-0861 Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the ALSA sound PCM core. We believe this was not possible in practice. CVE-2017-5715...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1369-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.2.101-1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-0861 CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-13166 CVE-2017-16526 CVE-2017-16911 CVE-2017-16912 CVE-2017-16913 CVE-2017-16914 CVE-2017-18017 CVE-2017-18203 CVE-2017-18216 CVE-2018-1068 CVE-2018-1092 CVE-2018-5332 CVE-2018-5333 CVE-2018-5750 CVE-2018-5803...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1001-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5292 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability was fixed in the kernel v4l2 video driver. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-1068: A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of...