CVE-2016-5195

CVE-2016-5195 (Dirty COW) : A race condition in the Linux kernel’s memory management (mm/gup.c) allows a local user to gain write access to read‑only mappings via a faulty copy‑on‑write handling. Affected: kernel 2.x–4.x prior to 4.8.3. Exploitation was observed in the wild around Oct 2016. Impac...

CVE-2016-3427

CVE-2016-3427 is an unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE (affecting 6u113, 7u99, 8u77) and JRockit, tied to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) component. Exploitation can affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via JMX-related vectors; the issue is described as an unspecified...

CVE-2015-7974

CVE-2015-7974 concerns the NTP reference implementation. The issue arises when authenticated packets are processed: symmetric-key peer associations are not properly verified, potentially enabling a remote attacker to impersonate a trusted peer (skeleton key). Affected are NTP 4.x prior to 4.2.8p6...