ALSA-2023:7077 Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: tun: avoid double free in tunfreenetdev CVE-2022-4744 kernel: net/sched: multiple vulnerabilities CVE-2023-3609, CVE-2023-3611, CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Apache MQ and Three Cisco Modules in a Trenchcoat This week’s release has a lot of new content and features modules targeting two major recent vulnerabilities that got a great deal of attention: CVE-2023-46604 targeting Apache MQ resulting in ransomware deployment and CVE-2023-20198 targeting Cis...

Apache NiFi Credentials Gather

This module will grab Apache NiFi credentials from various files on Linux. Module Options msf use post/linux/gather/apachenificredentials msf postapachenificredentials show actions ...actions... msf postapachenificredentials set ACTION msf postapachenificredentials show options ...show and set...

kernel: udmabuf: Set ubuf->sg = NULL if the creation of sg table fails

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s udmabuf subsystem where the scatter-gather sg pointer was not properly set to NULL if creation of the sg table failed. If userspace attempts to map a dmabuf and the sg table allocation fails e.g., due to memory exhaustion, the kernel later attempts to free a...

hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability

A Gather Data Sampling GDS transient execution side-channel vulnerability was found affecting certain Intel processors. This issue may allow a local attacker using gather instruction load from memory to infer stale data from previously used vector registers on the same physical core...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:4127-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:3894-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

CLSA-2023-1695716575 kernel: Fix of 25 CVEs

xen/xenbus: don't let xenbusgrantring remove grants in error case CVE-2022-23040 - xen/xenbus: Fix granting of vmalloc'd memory - xen/blkfront: don't use gnttabqueryforeignaccess for mapped status CVE-2022-23036 - xen/grant-table: add gnttabtryendforeignaccess CVE-2022-23036 - xen/blkfront: don't...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

5.4.17-2136.323.8.el7 - vhost-scsi: Fix alignment handling with windows Mike Christie Orabug: 35769318 - Revert 'vhost/scsi: support non zerocopy iovecs' Rajan Shanmugavelu Orabug: 35769318 5.4.17-2136.323.7.el7 - x86: change default to specstorebypassdisable=prctl spectrev2user=prctl Andrea...

Prometheus Node Exporter And Windows Exporter Information Gather

This modules connects to a Prometheus Node Exporter or Windows Exporter service and gathers information about the host. Tested against Docker image 1.6.1, Linux 1.6.1, and Windows 0.23.1 Module Options msf use auxiliary/gather/prometheusnodeexportergather msf auxiliaryprometheusnodeexportergather...

SUSE-SU-2023:3496-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Update to Xen 4.13.5 bug fix release bsc1027519. - CVE-2023-20569: Fixed x86/AMD Speculative Return Stack Overflow XSA-434 bsc1214082. - CVE-2022-40982: Fixed x86/Intel Gather Data Sampling XSA-435 bsc1214083. - CVE-2023-20593: Fixed x86/AMD Zenblee...

SUSE-SU-2023:3446-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: - CVE-2023-20569: Fixed side channel attack Inception or RAS Poisoning. bsc1214082, XSA-434 - CVE-2022-40982: Fixed transient execution attack called 'Gather Data Sampling'. bsc1214083, XSA-435 - CVE-2023-20593: Fixed a ZenBleed issue in 'Zen 2' CPU...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5475-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

CVE-2022-40982

A Gather Data Sampling GDS transient execution side-channel vulnerability was found affecting certain Intel processors. This issue may allow a local attacker using gather instruction load from memory to infer stale data from previously used vector registers on the same physical core. Mitigation T...

x86/Intel: Gather Data Sampling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A researcher has discovered Gather Data Sampling, a transient execution side-channel whereby the AVX GATHER instructions can forward the content of stale vector registers to dependent instructions. The physical register file is a structure competitively shared between sibling...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap up

Unauthenticated RCE in VMware Product This week, community contributor h00die added an exploit module that leverages a command injection vulnerability in VMWare Aria Operations for Networks, formerly known as vRealize Network Insight. Versions 6.2 to 6.10 are vulnerable CVE-2023-20887. A remote...

CVE-2023-3271

Improper Access Control in the SICK ICR890-4 could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gather information about the system and download data via the REST API by accessing unauthenticated endpoints...

kernel: drm/virtio: improper return value check in virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init()

In the Linux kernel before 6.0.3, drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpuobject.c misinterprets the drmgemshmemgetsgtable return value expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer...

kernel: skmsg: Fix wrong last sg check in sk_msg_recvmsg()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: skmsg: Fix wrong last sg check in skmsgrecvmsg Fix one kernel NULL pointer dereference as below: 224.462334 Call Trace: 224.462394 tcpbpfrecvmsg+0xd3/0x380 224.462441 ? sockhasperm+0x78/0xa0 224.462463 tcpbpfrecvmsg+0x12e/0x220...

kernel: drm/virtio: improper return value check in virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init()

In the Linux kernel before 6.0.3, drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpuobject.c misinterprets the drmgemshmemgetsgtable return value expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer...