CVE-2019-2345

CVE-2019-2345 describes a race condition when accessing the DMA buffer in the JPEG driver across Snapdragon platforms (Auto, Connectivity, consumer IoT, industrial IoT, Mobile, Wearables). The issue affects numerous SDM/SoC lines (e.g., MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCS605, SD 425–SD 827/SD 835–SD 850, SD...

CVE-2019-2345

Race condition while accessing DMA buffer in jpeg driver in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables in MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCS605, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 636, SD 712 / SD 710...

Debian DLA-1799-2 : linux security update (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. This updated advisory text adds a note about the need to install new binary packages. CVE-2018-5995 ADLab of VenusTech discovered that the kernel logge...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3981-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3981-1 advisory. Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas, Andrei Lutas, Volodymyr Pikhur, Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa...

Ubuntu 19.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3979-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas, Andrei Lutas, Volodymyr Pikhur, Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Osterlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss discovered...

USN-3982-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3982-1 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 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3837

It was found that the netdma code in tcprecvmsg in the 2.6.32 kernel as shipped in RHEL6 is thread-unsafe. So an unprivileged multi-threaded userspace application calling recvmsg for the same network socket in parallel executed on ioatdma-enabled hardware with netdma enabled can leak the memory,...

PT-2019-5303 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel version 2.6.32 Description: The issue is related to the net dma code in the tcp recvmsg function, which is thread-unsafe. This can be exploited by an unprivileged multi-threaded userspace application calling recvmsg for the same...

CVE-2018-20449

CVE-2018-20449 affects the Linux kernel 4.14.90, specifically the hidma_chan_stats function in drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_dbg.c. It allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading callback= lines in a debugfs file. The issue is evidenced across multiple feeds (NVD, Red Hat, SUSE...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:14001-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEMexchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service bsc1126192. Fixed an issue which could allow a...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-974)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to 4.12.14-lp150.12.28.1 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-18281: The mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the...

Xen Project PCI Pass-through DMA Privilege Escalation (XSA-288)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. Only x86 systems are affected. Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardwa...

x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline

ISSUE DESCRIPTION In order for a PV domain to set up DMA from a passed-through device to one of its pages, the page must be mapped in the IOMMU. On the other hand, before a PV page may be used as a "special" page type such as a pagetable or descriptor table, it must not be writable in the IOMMU...

New found thunderclap vulnerability allows hackers to use a Thunderbolt/USB-C peripheral attack PC-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Earlier by the Cambridge University computer science and Technology Department, Rice University, and Stanford Institute of International Studies a group of researchers announced a new vulnerability Thunderclap, affecting all major platforms, including MacOS and Windows. The vulnerability affects...

Thunderclap Flaws Shatter Peripheral Security

UPDATE A set of vulnerabilities collectively dubbed “Thunderclap” is putting computers at risk from weaponized peripheral devices think network cards, storage and graphics cards, and even chargers and video projectors. The flaws reside in the Thunderbolt hardware interface developed by Intel in...

New Flaws Re-Enable DMA Attacks On Wide Range of Modern Computers

Security researchers have discovered a new class of security vulnerabilities that impacts all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD, allowing attackers to bypass protection mechanisms introduced to defend against DMA attacks. Known for years, Direct...

Code injection

The ASPEED ast2400 and ast2500 Baseband Management Controller BMC hardware and firmware implement Advanced High-performance Bus AHB bridges, which allow arbitrary read and write access to the BMC's physical address space from the host or from the network in unusual cases where the BMC console uar...

CVE-2019-6260

The ASPEED ast2400 and ast2500 Baseband Management Controller BMC hardware and firmware implement Advanced High-performance Bus AHB bridges, which allow arbitrary read and write access to the BMC's physical address space from the host or from the network in unusual cases where the BMC console uar...

Design/Logic Flaw

The ThreadX-based firmware on Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi devices, models 88W8787, 88W8797, 88W8801, 88W8897, and 88W8997, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service block pool overflow via malformed Wi-Fi packets during identification of available Wi-Fi networks...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4315)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4315 advisory. - pinctrl: amd: Use devmpinctrlregister for pinctrl registration Laxman Dewangan Orabug: 27539246 CVE-2017-18174 - mlock: fix mlock count can not...