USN-4095-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-4095-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Eli Biham and Lior Neumann discovered that the Bluetooth implementation in the Linux...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20190729)

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures. Security Fixes : - QEMU:...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-ma (RHSA-2019:2166)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2166 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide...

CVE-2019-1125

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain central processing units CPU speculatively access memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could read privileged data across trust boundaries. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fro...

Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain central processing units CPU speculatively access memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could read privileged data across trust boundaries. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an...

Google and ARM Tackle Android Bugs with Memory-Tagging

Aiming at improving the security of the Android ecosystem, Google has partnered up with mobile silicon-maker ARM to implement a hardware-based bug detection tool specifically for memory-safety vulnerabilities. Dubbed the memory-tagging extension MTE, the feature helps mitigate these kinds of bugs...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability fr...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4076-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4076-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial Attached SCSI SAS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use...

USN-4076-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial Attached SCSI SAS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-20836 It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementati...

USN-4076-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial Attached SCSI SAS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-20836 It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementati...

LLVMs Arm stack protection feature can be rendered ineffective

Overview The stack protection feature in LLVM's Arm backend can be rendered ineffective when the stack protector slot is re-allocated so that is appears after the local variables that it is meant to protect, leaving the function potentially vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. Description...

Unusual Linux Ransomware Targets NAS Servers

A rare instance of ransomware targeting Linux-based file storage systems network-attached storage servers, specifically has been spotted, spreading via 15 separate but related campaigns. The adversaries behind the effort are continuing their depredations on an ongoing basis, according to...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2019-1694)

According to the version of the util-linux packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Blkid in util-linux before 2.26rc-1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code.CVE-2014-9114 Note that Tenable...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : dbus (EulerOS-SA-2019-1706)

According to the version of the dbus packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - dbus before 1.10.28, 1.12.x before 1.12.16, and 1.13.x before 1.13.12, as used in DBusServer in Canonical Upstart in Ubuntu...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : php (EulerOS-SA-2019-1705)

According to the versions of the php packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - When processing certain files, PHP EXIF extension in versions 7.1.x below 7.1.28, 7.2.x below 7.2.17 and 7.3.x below 7.3....

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : sssd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1701)

According to the version of the sssd packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A vulnerability was found in sssd where, if a user was configured with no home directory set, sssd would return '/' the roo...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : sqlite (EulerOS-SA-2019-1713)

According to the version of the sqlite package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The getNodeSize function in ext/rtree/rtree.c in SQLite through 3.19.3, as used in GDAL and other products, mishandles...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2019-1700)

According to the version of the libtiff package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the t2pwritepdf function in tools/tiff2pdf.c. This heap overfl...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1702)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The kernel package contains the Linux kernel vmlinuz, the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the...