VMware Workstation SVGA3D Command Heap Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: An attacker will elevate privileges on VMware Workstation installations that are affected by this vulnerability. To exploit this flaw, an attacker must first be able to execute low-privileged code on the target guest machine. The basic fault is in the way SVGA3D commands are applied. The problem emerges from a lack of sufficient length validation of user-supplied data before copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker will take advantage of this flaw to exec…
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Details: USN-4883-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities 20 March 2021 Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Releases o Ubuntu 18.04 LTS o Ubuntu 16.04 LTS o Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Packages o linux - Linux kernel o linux-aws - Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems o linux-aws-hwe - Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS-HWE) systems o linux-azure - Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems o linux-azure-4.15 - Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems o linux-gcp - Linux kernel for Google Clou…