A buffer overflow vulnerability has been disclosed that could allow for local privilege escalation to root and leakage of stack and heap addresses. The CVSS score is 7.8 HIGH. A patch has been proposed and mitigation is available by disabling unprivileged user namespaces. This is another buffer overflow in nf_tables similar to the one we … Read More “KERNEL STACK BUFFER OVERFLOW in Linux – CVE-2023-0179” »
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News, Vulnerability
News, Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the Linux kernel was recently disclosed that could allow a bad actor with local access to escalate to root privileges. A bug in nft_elem_init leads to a buffer overflow and allows for access as root. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 HIGH. A patch has been released by the Linux … Read More “LINUX FIREWALL VULNERABILITY – CVE-2022-34918” »