WhatsWrongAndWhy

20 exploits Active since Apr 2016
CVE-2023-2640 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
GameOver(lay) Privilege Escalation and Container Escape
On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU: SAUCE: overlayfs: Skip permission checking for trusted.overlayfs.* xattrs", an unprivileged user may set privileged extended attributes on the mounted files, leading them to be set on the upper files without the appropriate security checks.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2020-8835 NOMISEC HIGH STUB
Linux kernel <5.6.1, <5.5.14, <5.4.29 - Memory Corruption
In the Linux kernel 5.5.0 and newer, the bpf verifier (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) did not properly restrict the register bounds for 32-bit operations, leading to out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory. The vulnerability also affects the Linux 5.4 stable series, starting with v5.4.7, as the introducing commit was backported to that branch. This vulnerability was fixed in 5.6.1, 5.5.14, and 5.4.29. (issue is aka ZDI-CAN-10780)
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2021-3490 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
Linux eBPF ALU32 32-bit Invalid Bounds Tracking LPE
The eBPF ALU32 bounds tracking for bitwise ops (AND, OR and XOR) in the Linux kernel did not properly update 32-bit bounds, which could be turned into out of bounds reads and writes in the Linux kernel and therefore, arbitrary code execution. This issue was fixed via commit 049c4e13714e ("bpf: Fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations") (v5.13-rc4) and backported to the stable kernels in v5.12.4, v5.11.21, and v5.10.37. The AND/OR issues were introduced by commit 3f50f132d840 ("bpf: Verifier, do explicit ALU32 bounds tracking") (5.7-rc1) and the XOR variant was introduced by 2921c90d4718 ("bpf:Fix a verifier failure with xor") ( 5.10-rc1).
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2021-3493 NOMISEC HIGH STUB
2021 Ubuntu Overlayfs LPE
The overlayfs implementation in the linux kernel did not properly validate with respect to user namespaces the setting of file capabilities on files in an underlying file system. Due to the combination of unprivileged user namespaces along with a patch carried in the Ubuntu kernel to allow unprivileged overlay mounts, an attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS 8.8
CVE-2021-41073 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
Linux kernel <5.14.6 - Privilege Escalation
loop_rw_iter in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel 5.10 through 5.14.6 allows local users to gain privileges by using IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS to trigger a free of a kernel buffer, as demonstrated by using /proc/<pid>/maps for exploitation.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2021-42008 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
Linux Kernel 2.6.12-4.4.282 - Authenticated Out-of-bounds Write in 6pack Decode Function
The decode_data function in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.13 has a slab out-of-bounds write. Input from a process that has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability can lead to root access.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2017-1000112 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
Linux Kernel UDP Fragmentation Offset (UFO) Privilege Escalation
Linux kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch. When building a UFO packet with MSG_MORE __ip_append_data() calls ip_ufo_append_data() to append. However in between two send() calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption. In case UFO packet lengths exceeds MTU, copy = maxfraglen - skb->len becomes negative on the non-UFO path and the branch to allocate new skb is taken. This triggers fragmentation and computation of fraggap = skb_prev->len - maxfraglen. Fraggap can exceed MTU, causing copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap to become negative. Subsequently skb_copy_and_csum_bits() writes out-of-bounds. A similar issue is present in IPv6 code. The bug was introduced in e89e9cf539a2 ("[IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach") on Oct 18 2005.
CVSS 7.0
CVE-2017-16995 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
Linux BPF Sign Extension Local Privilege Escalation
The check_alu_op function in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect sign extension.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2017-7308 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
AF_PACKET packet_set_ring Privilege Escalation
The packet_set_ring function in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 does not properly validate certain block-size data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer signedness error and out-of-bounds write), or gain privileges (if the CAP_NET_RAW capability is held), via crafted system calls.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2018-18955 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
Linux Nested User Namespace idmap Limit Local Privilege Escalation
In the Linux kernel 4.15.x through 4.19.x before 4.19.2, map_write() in kernel/user_namespace.c allows privilege escalation because it mishandles nested user namespaces with more than 5 UID or GID ranges. A user who has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an affected user namespace can bypass access controls on resources outside the namespace, as demonstrated by reading /etc/shadow. This occurs because an ID transformation takes place properly for the namespaced-to-kernel direction but not for the kernel-to-namespaced direction.
CVSS 7.0
CVE-2018-5333 NOMISEC MEDIUM STUB
Linux kernel <4.14.13 - Memory Corruption
In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandles cases where page pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS 5.5
CVE-2020-27194 NOMISEC MEDIUM TROJAN
Linux kernel <5.8.15 - Memory Corruption
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15. scalar32_min_max_or in kernel/bpf/verifier.c mishandles bounds tracking during use of 64-bit values, aka CID-5b9fbeb75b6a.
CVSS 5.5
CVE-2021-22555 NOMISEC HIGH STUB
Netfilter x_tables Heap OOB Write Privilege Escalation
A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since v2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/x_tables.c. This allows an attacker to gain privileges or cause a DoS (via heap memory corruption) through user name space
CVSS 8.3
CVE-2021-27365 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
Linux kernel <5.11.3 - Info Disclosure
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. Certain iSCSI data structures do not have appropriate length constraints or checks, and can exceed the PAGE_SIZE value. An unprivileged user can send a Netlink message that is associated with iSCSI, and has a length up to the maximum length of a Netlink message.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2021-31440 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
Linux Kernel 5.11.15 - Privilege Escalation
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Linux Kernel 5.11.15. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of eBPF programs. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel. Was ZDI-CAN-13661.
CVSS 7.0
CVE-2021-3156 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
Sudo Heap-Based Buffer Overflow
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2016-8655 NOMISEC HIGH TROJAN
AF_PACKET chocobo_root Privilege Escalation
Race condition in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.12 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packet_set_ring and packet_setsockopt functions.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2016-9793 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
Linux Kernel 3.5-3.12.69 - Memory Corruption via Negative sk_sndbuf/sk_rcvbuf Values
The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUFFORCE or (2) SO_RCVBUFFORCE option.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2015-1328 NOMISEC HIGH WORKING POC
Linux kernel <3.19.0-21.21 - Privilege Escalation
The overlayfs implementation in the linux (aka Linux kernel) package before 3.19.0-21.21 in Ubuntu through 15.04 does not properly check permissions for file creation in the upper filesystem directory, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging a configuration in which overlayfs is permitted in an arbitrary mount namespace.
CVSS 7.8
CVE-2015-8550 NOMISEC HIGH STUB
Xen - Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation via Double Fetch in PV Backend Memory
Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability.
CVSS 8.2