Exploit for Privilege Context Switching Error in Canonical Ubuntu_Linux

PoC exploit for CVE-2021-3493, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu OverlayFS. The target is the Linux kernel, specifically the overlayfs file system, which did not properly validate the application of file system capabilities with respect to user namespaces. A local attacker coul...

USN-4916-2 linux, linux-aws, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-oem-5.6, linux-raspi2, linux-raspi2-5.3, linux-snapdragon regression

USN-4916-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2021-3493 introduced a memory leak in some situations. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the overlayfs implementation in the Linu...