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CVSS: 7.8EPSS: 87%CPEs: 56EXPL: 170

26 Jan 2022 — A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. The pkexec application is a setuid tool designed to allow unprivileged users to run commands as privileged users according predefined policies. The current version of pkexec doesn't handle the calling parameters count correctly and ends trying to execute environment variables as commands. An attacker can leverage this by crafting environment variables in such a way it'll induce pkexec to execute arbitrary code. When successfull... • https://packetstorm.news/files/id/166196 • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write •

CVSS: 6.2EPSS: 0%CPEs: 8EXPL: 0

02 Dec 2020 — A flaw memory leak in the Linux kernel performance monitoring subsystem was found in the way if using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. A local user could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service. Se encontró una perdida de memoria de fallo en el subsistema de monitoreo del rendimiento del kernel de Linux en el modo si se usaba PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER. Un usuario local podría utilizar este fallo para privar los recursos causando una denegación de servicio A memory leak flaw was found ... • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895961 • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime •