05 Mar 2017
Description: WordPress plugin NextGEN Gallery has severe SQL Injection vulnerability. According to the original source, one of the following conditions must be met for exploitation: The use of a NextGEN Basic TagCloud gallery. If users are able to submit posts to be reviewed (contributors). Impact: This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated...
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02 Mar 2017
CVE-2016-0099: The Secondary Logon Service in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold and 1511 does not properly process request handles, which allows local users to gain privileges via...
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02 Mar 2017
CVE-2016-5195: Race condition in mm/gup.c in the Linux kernel 2.x through 4.x before 4.8.3 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect handling of a copy-on-write (COW) feature to write to a read-only memory mapping, as exploited in the wild in October 2016, aka “Dirty COW.” Mitigation: Updates are...
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02 Mar 2017
The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on locally and runs arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs, view, change or delete data or create new accounts with full user rights. Mitigation: Microsoft has released patches for Windows...
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27 Feb 2017
New CVE-2017-6074 Linux local root exploit was published. CVE-2017-6074: The dccp_rcv_state_process function in net/dccp/input.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.11 mishandles DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet data structures in the LISTEN state, which allows local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service (double free) via an application that makes an...
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