Zero-day Vulnerability Database

Privilege escalation

The vulnerability allows a  local user to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness is due to race condition in the kernel memory subsystem in the management of copy-on-write operations on read-only memory mappings that lets attackers to overwrite kernel memory and gain kernel-level privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in gaining of root privileges on the vulnerable system.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

Use-after-free error

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in the join_session_keyring() function in security/keys/process_keys.c when handling keyring object reference counting by Linux kernel's key management subsystem. A local attacker can overflow the usage field via a specially crafted object and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.