SUSE-SU-2018:1171-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-1087: And an unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges inside a guest. bsc1087088 - CVE-2018-8897: An...

CVE-2018-1087

kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1087

kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2018-1113)

According to the versions of the qemu-kvm packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - QEMU aka Quick Emulator, when built with the VGA display emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20180410)

Security Fixes : - Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display update CVE-2017-13672 - Qemu: Slirp: use-after-free when sending response CVE-2017-13711 - Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server CVE-2017-15124 - Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via...

CentOS 7 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2018:0816)

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0816 An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:1077-1) (Spectre)

This update for kvm fixes the following issues : - This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrates with corresponding changes in libvirt. A January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by exposing the spec-ctrl...

SUSE-SU-2018:1077-1 Security update for kvm

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: - This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrates with corresponding changes in libvirt. A January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by exposing the spec-ctrl...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3632-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

USN-3632-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-0861 It was discovered that the KVM...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3632-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3632-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: Race condition in the storeintwithrestart function in cpu/mcheck/mce.c: A race condition in the storeintwithrestart function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service panic by leveraging root access to write to the...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-942) (Spectre)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2018-0816)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0816 advisory. - Resolves: bz1518711 CVE-2017-15268 qemu-kvm: Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC rhel-7.5 - Resolves: bz1527405...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-956) (Dirty COW) (Spectre)

Stack-based out-of-bounds read via vmcall instruction Linux kernel compiled with the KVM virtualization CONFIGKVM support is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read access issue. It could occur when emulating vmcall instructions invoked by a guest. A guest user/process could use this flaw to disclose...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1350-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0033)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - mlx4: change the ICM table allocations to lowest needed size Daniel Jurgens Orabug: 27718305 - autofs: use dentry flags to block walks during expire Ian Kent - autofs races Al Viro Orabug: 27766149...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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 for...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 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 for...