SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : binutils (SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1)

GNU binutil was updated to the 2.29.1 release, bringing various new features, fixing a lot of bugs and security issues. Following security issues are being addressed by this release : - 18750 bsc1030296 CVE-2014-9939 - 20891 bsc1030585 CVE-2017-7225 - 20892 bsc1030588 CVE-2017-7224 - 20898...

Lifting the (Hyper) Visor: Bypassing Samsung’s Real-Time Kernel Protection

Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project Zero Traditionally, the operating system’s kernel is the last security boundary standing between an attacker and full control over a target system. As such, additional care must be taken in order to ensure the integrity of the kernel. First, when a system boots, t...

ARM guests may induce host asynchronous abort

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Depending on how the hardware and firmware have been integrated, guest-triggered asynchronous aborts SError on ARMv8 may be received by the hypervisor. The current action is to crash the host. A guest might trigger an asynchronous abort when accessing memory mapped hardware in a...