USN-3582-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-17712 Laurent Guerby discovered that...

MGASA-2017-0459 Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

Updated rsync package fixes security vulnerability

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

CVE-2017-16548

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

Out-of-Bounds

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16548

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

CVE-2017-16548

The CVE-2017-16548 issue affects rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development: receive_xattr does not validate a trailing null in xattr names, allowing a remote attacker to cause a heap-based buffer over-read and crash the daemon. Evidence from multiple advisories confirms a denial-of-service/possible impac...

CVE-2017-16548

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16548

The receivexattr function in xattrs.c in rsync 3.1.2 and 3.1.3-development does not check for a trailing '\0' character in an xattr name, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by sendi...

PT-2017-4062

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions rsync versions 3.1.2 through 3.1.3-development Description The issue is related to the receive xattr function in xattrs.c, which lacks a check for a trailing '0' character in an xattr name. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8086

Memory leak in the v9fslistxattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via vectors involving the origvalue variable...

PT-2017-18112

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU aka Quick Emulator versions prior to the fixed version Description A memory leak issue exists, allowing local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service through memory consumption. This issue involves the orig value variable i...

AUFS (Ubuntu 15.10) Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/AufsPrivilegeEscalationInUserNamespaces/ Introduction Problem description: Aufs is a union filesystem to mix content of different underlying filesystems, e.g. read-only medium with r/w RAM-fs. That is also allowed in user namespaces when module was...

Ubuntu 14.04/15.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr Setgid Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/UserNamespaceOverlayfsXattrSetgidPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: Linux user namespace allows to mount file systems as normal user, including the overlayfs. As many of those...

Ubuntu 15.10 AUFS - allow_userns Fuse/Xattr User Namespaces Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/AufsPrivilegeEscalationInUserNamespaces/ Introduction Problem description: Aufs is a union filesystem to mix content of different underlying filesystems, e.g. read-only medium with r/w RAM-fs. That ...

Ubuntu 14.0415.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr SetGID Privilege Escalation

Ubuntu 14.0415.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr SetGID Privilege Escalation Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/UserNamespaceOverlayfsXattrSetgidPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: Linux user namespace allows to mount file systems as normal user, including the...

Ubuntu 14.04/15.10 - User Namespace Overlayfs Xattr SetGID Privilege Escalation

Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/UserNamespaceOverlayfsXattrSetgidPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: Linux user namespace allows to mount file systems as normal user, including the overlayfs. As many of those features were not designed with namespaces in mind, this...

PT-2016-7653

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to multiple integer overflows in the v9fs xattr read and v9fs xattr write functions. This can be exploited by local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9103

The v9fsxattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading xattribute values before writing to them...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9104

Multiple integer overflows in the 1 v9fsxattrread and 2 v9fsxattrwrite functions in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service QEMU process crash via a crafted offset, which triggers an out-of-bounds access...