CVE-2023-5090

A flaw was found in KVM. An improper check in svmsetx2apicmsrinterception may allow direct access to host x2apic msrs when the guest resets its apic, potentially leading to a denial of service condition...

CVE-2023-5090

CVE-2023-5090: A flaw in Linux kernel KVM (svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception) enables direct access to host x2apic MSRs when a guest resets its APIC, potentially causing denial of service. Connected advisories (Astra Linux, IBM Guardium bulletin, Amazon ALAS) reference this CVE as part of Linux ker...

CVE-2023-5090

A flaw was found in KVM. An improper check in svmsetx2apicmsrinterception may allow direct access to host x2apic msrs when the guest resets its apic, potentially leading to a denial of service condition. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available optio...

Rocky Linux 8 : virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2021:1064)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:1064 advisory. - It was discovered that the update for the virt:rhel module in the RHSA-2020:4676 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4676 erratum released as part of Re...

Rocky Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (RLSA-2022:7967)

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:7967 advisory. - A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 including. It could occur in fdctrltransferhandler in hw/block/fdc.c...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2021:3548)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:3548 advisory. - A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provide...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel-rt (RLSA-2021:3088)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:3088 advisory. - An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K07721343)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K07721343 advisory. - A flaw was found in Linux kernel's KVM virtualization subsystem. The VMX code does not restore the GDT.LIMIT to the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fo...

RHEL 9 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2023:6227)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6227 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the...

USN-6445-2: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service excessive CPU consumption. CVE-2023-1206 Daniel Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities (USN-6445-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6445-2 advisory. It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2023-0296)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2023-0295)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

MGASA-2023-0295 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 6.4.16 and fixes or adds mitigations for atleast the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be often...

MGASA-2023-0296 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 6.4.16 and fixes or adds mitigations for atleast the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 6.4.16 and fixes or adds mitigations for atleast the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be often...

Debian dla-3623 : linux-config-5.10 - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3623 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3623-1 [email protected]...

USN-6445-1: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service excessive CPU consumption. CVE-2023-1206 Daniel Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi...

USN-6444-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized network frontend, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash or...