The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel, related to deficiencies in access control, allows attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to improperly applied security restrictions in the KVM AMD code, which is used to support embedded virtualization within SVM. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to increase their privileges...

AlmaLinux 8 : kernel (ALSA-2021:3548)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-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 provided ...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2021:3057)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2021:3057 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...

QEMU Monitor HMP migrate Command Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "QEMU Monitor HMP 'migrate' Command Execution", 'Description' = %q This module uses QEMU's Monitor Human Monitor Interface HMP TCP server to execu...

USN-5268-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Keyu Man discovered that the ICMP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle received ICMP error packets. A remote attacker could use this to facilitate attacks on UDP based services that depend on source port randomization. CVE-2021-20322 It was discovered that the Bluetooth...

USN-5265-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-aws-5.13, linux-azure-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.11, linux-hwe-5.13, linux-kvm, linux-oem-5.13, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.11, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-27820 It was discovered that the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux...

USN-5265-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-27820 It was discovered that the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5265-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5265-1 advisory. Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate...

PT-2022-1628 · Linux +10 · Linux Kernel +10

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.17-rc4 Description: A flaw in the kvm s390 guest sida op function in KVM for s390 in the Linux kernel allows a local attacker with normal user privileges to obtain unauthorized memory write access. This issue ...

virt:rhel bug fix update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

ALBA-2022:0361 virt:rhel bug fix update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

rhel bug fix update

An update is available for libguestfs, libnbd, nbdkit, libguestfs-winsupport, supermin, libiscsi, hivex, libvirt, netcf, perl-Sys-Virt, seabios, qemu-kvm, sgabios, libvirt-dbus, libvirt-python. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:av and virt-devel:av security and bug fix update

An update for the virt:av and virt-devel:av modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8.4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c kvm_free_lapic when a failure allocation was detected. In this flaw the KVM subsystem may crash the kernel due to mishandling of memory errors that happens during VCPU construction which allows an attacker with special user privilege to cause a denial of service. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.15 rc7.

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Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2017-0065)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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-2019-0388)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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-2018-0324)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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-2017-0466)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4977-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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-2018-0074)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...