[CISCO-SA-20161026-LINUX] Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Affecting Cisco Products: October 2016

Severity Medium

CVEs 1

On October 19, 2016, a new vulnerability related to a race condition in the memory manager of the Linux Kernel was disclosed. This vulnerability could allow unprivileged, local users to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings to increase their privileges on the system.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. For information about affected and fixed software releases, consult the Cisco bug IDs in the Vulnerable Products table.

This advisory is available at the following link:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-linux ["http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-linux"]

ID

CISCO-SA-20161026-LINUX

Severity

medium

URL

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-linux

Published

2016-10-26T15:00:00
(8 years ago)

Modified

2016-10-26T15:00:00
(8 years ago)

Rights

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Other Advisories

Source	# ID	Name	URL
Vunlerability Alert		Linux Kernel Memory Subsystem Copy-on-Write Privilege Escalation Vulnerability	https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=49385&typeName=Vulnerability Alert
Snort		40542	https://www.snort.org
Snort		40543	https://www.snort.org
Snort		40560	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		40561	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		40562	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		40563	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		40564	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		40565	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		40566	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		49542	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Snort		49543	https://support.sourcefire.com/supplemental/sf-rules-2016-10-27-seu.html
Cisco	CSCvb85490	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85490	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85490
Cisco	CSCvb85516	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85516	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85516
Cisco	CSCvb85528	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85528	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85528
Cisco	CSCvb85529	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85529	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85529
Cisco	CSCvb85547	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85547	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85547
Cisco	CSCvb85559	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85559	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85559
Cisco	CSCvb85564	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85564	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85564
Cisco	CSCvb85571	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85571	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85571
Cisco	CSCvb85583	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85583	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85583
Cisco	CSCvb85587	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85587	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85587
Cisco	CSCvb85595	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85595	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85595
Cisco	CSCvb85606	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85606	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85606
Cisco	CSCvb85607	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85607	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85607
Cisco	CSCvb85609	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85609	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85609
Cisco	CSCvb85616	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85616	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85616
Cisco	CSCvb85633	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85633	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85633
Cisco	CSCvb85647	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85647	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85647
Cisco	CSCvb85649	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85649	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85649
Cisco	CSCvb85679	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85679	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85679
Cisco	CSCvb85713	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85713	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85713
Cisco	CSCvb85719	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85719	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85719
Cisco	CSCvb85723	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85723	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85723
Cisco	CSCvb85725	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb85725	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb85725
Cisco	CSCvb87054	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb87054	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb87054
Cisco	CSCvb96355	Cisco Bug ID CSCvb96355	https://bst.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb96355
Cisco		CSAF	https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-linux/csaf/cisco-sa-20161026-linux.json

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# CVE	Description	CVSS	EPSS	EPSS Trend (30 days)	Affected Products	Weaknesses	Security Advisories	PoC	Pubblication Date	Modification Date