{"id":40905,"date":"2021-03-16T15:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-4878-1-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:34:16","slug":"usn-4878-1-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-4878-1-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"USN-4878-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USN-4878-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex device driver in the Linux<br \/>\nkernel did not properly validate ad-hoc SSIDs. A local attacker could use<br \/>\nthis to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute<br \/>\narbitrary code. (CVE-2020-36158)<\/p>\n<p>Ryota Shiga discovered that the sockopt BPF hooks in the Linux kernel could<br \/>\nallow a user space program to probe for valid kernel addresses. A local<br \/>\nattacker could use this to ease exploitation of another kernel<br \/>\nvulnerability. (CVE-2021-20239)<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the priority inheritance futex implementation in the<br \/>\nLinux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free<br \/>\nvulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service<br \/>\n(system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3347)<\/p>\n<p>\u5434\u5f02 discovered that the NFS implementation in the Linux kernel did not<br \/>\nproperly prevent access outside of an NFS export that is a subdirectory of<br \/>\na file system. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass NFS access<br \/>\nrestrictions. (CVE-2021-3178)<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-4878-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USN-4878-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USN-4878-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate ad-hoc SSIDs. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-36158) Ryota Shiga discovered that the sockopt BPF hooks in the Linux kernel could allow a user space program to probe for valid kernel addresses. A local attacker could use this to ease exploitation of another kernel vulnerability. (CVE-2021-20239) It was discovered that the priority inheritance futex implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3347) \u5434\u5f02 discovered that the NFS implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent access outside of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-4878-1-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities\/\" title=\"USN-4878-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities\">[ more&#8230; ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-40905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40906,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905\/revisions\/40906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}