Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: privilege escalation via the ioctl system call
April 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions to the Linux kernel memory via
an ioctl system call, in order to escalate his privileges.
Impacted products: Debian, Android OS, openSUSE Leap, RHEL, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 23/02/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions to the Linux kernel memory via
an ioctl system call, in order to escalate his privileges.
A detailed analysis was not performed for this bulletin.
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