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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 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...

USN-4440-1 linux-hwe, linux-aws-5.3, linux-azure-5.3, linux-gcp-5.3, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-oracle-5.3, linux-raspi2-5.3 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network block device nbd implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for error conditions in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-16089 It was discovered that the kernel-user space relay...

CentOS 7 : kernel (RHSA-2020:3220)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3220 advisory. - Insufficient access control in the IntelR PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software driver before version 21.10 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2020-3220) (deprecated)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2020:3220 : The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3220 advisory. - kernel: use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c driv...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-1127.18.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 setlease be called without ilock Jeff Layton...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2020:3222)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3222 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: use-after-free in...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2020:3226)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3226 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: kernel: DAX hugepages not...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 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. 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 from th...

USN-4426-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jason A. Donenfeld discovered that the ACPI implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict loading SSDT code from an EFI variable. A privileged attacker could use this to bypass Secure Boot lockdown restrictions and execute arbitrary code in the kernel. CVE-2019-20908 Fan Yang...

USN-4439-1 linux-gke-5.0, linux-oem-osp1 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network block device nbd implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for error conditions in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-16089 It was discovered that the btrfs file system...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4426-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The DAX hugepages not considered during mremap, allowing a local attacker to obtain higher privileges on the system...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4426-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4426-1 advisory. Jason A. Donenfeld discovered that the ACPI implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict loading SSDT code from an EFI...

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

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 from...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2020:3041)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3041 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: kernel: DAX hugepages not...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue where a provided address with accessok is not checked was discovered in i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gemexecbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5756)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5756 advisory. - mm: Fix mremap not considering huge pmd devmap Fan Yang Orabug: 31452396 CVE-2020-10757 CVE-2020-10757 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:1784-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94100 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : CVE-2020-10757: Fixed an issue where remaping hugepage DAX to anon mmap could have caused user PTE access bsc1172437. CVE-2019-15666: Fixed an out of bounds read xfrmpolicyunlink, which...

SUSE-SU-2020:1781-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 29 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.180-94107 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2020-10757: Fixed an issue where remaping hugepage DAX to anon mmap could have caused user PTE access bsc1172437...