Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the Hygon processor not adding SRSO mitigations...

x86: BTC/SRSO fixes not fully effective

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabl...

Fedora 38 : xen (2023-8334fe0ecb)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8334fe0ecb advisory. Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware XSA-431, CVE-2022-42336 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

SUSE CVE-2022-42336

Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware The current logic to set SSBD on AMD Family 17h and Hygon Family 18h processors requires that the setting of SSBD is coordinated at a core level, as the setting is shared between threads. Logic was introduced to keep track of how many threads...

ALPINE-CVE-2022-42336

Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware The current logic to set SSBD on AMD Family 17h and Hygon Family 18h processors requires that the setting of SSBD is coordinated at a core level, as the setting is shared between threads. Logic was introduced to keep track of how many threads...

Buffer overflow

Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware The current logic to set SSBD on AMD Family 17h and Hygon Family 18h processors requires that the setting of SSBD is coordinated at a core level, as the setting is shared between threads. Logic was introduced to keep track of how many threads...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42336

Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware The current logic to set SSBD on AMD Family 17h and Hygon Family 18h processors requires that the setting of SSBD is coordinated at a core level, as the setting is shared between threads. Logic was introduced to keep track of how many threads...

x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Due to an oversight in the very original Spectre/Meltdown security work XSA-254, one entrypath performs its speculation-safety actions too late. In some configurations, there is an unprotected RET instruction which can be attacked with a variety of speculative attacks. IMPACT An...

SUSE CVE-2020-25602

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. An x86 PV guest can trigger a host OS crash when handling guest access to MSRMISCENABLE. When a guest accesses certain Model Specific Registers, Xen first reads the value from hardware to use as the basis for auditing the guest access. For the...

CVE-2022-29277

Incorrect pointer checks within the the FwBlockServiceSmm driver can allow arbitrary RAM modifications During review of the FwBlockServiceSmm driver, certain instances of SpiAccessLib could be tricked into writing 0xff to arbitrary system and SMRAM addresses. Fixed in: INTEL Purley-R: 05.21.51.00...

Null pointer dereference

Incorrect pointer checks within the the FwBlockServiceSmm driver can allow arbitrary RAM modifications During review of the FwBlockServiceSmm driver, certain instances of SpiAccessLib could be tricked into writing 0xff to arbitrary system and SMRAM addresses. Fixed in: INTEL Purley-R: 05.21.51.00...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:1744-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates

ISSUE DESCRIPTION AMD IOMMU page table entries are updated in a step by step manner, without regard to them being potentially in use by the IOMMU. Therefore it was possible that the IOMMU would read and then use a half-updated entry. Furthermore, updates to Device Table entries lacked suitable...

CVE-2020-25602

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. An x86 PV guest can trigger a host OS crash when handling guest access to MSRMISCENABLE. When a guest accesses certain Model Specific Registers, Xen first reads the value from hardware to use as the basis for auditing the guest access. For the...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. An x86 PV guest can trigger a host OS crash when handling guest access to MSRMISCENABLE. When a guest accesses certain Model Specific Registers, Xen first reads the value from hardware to use as the basis for auditing the guest access. For the...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. x86 PV guest kernels can experience denial of service via SYSENTER. The SYSENTER instruction leaves various state sanitization activities to software. One of Xen's sanitization paths injects a GP fault, and incorrectly delivers it twice to the guest...

CVE-2020-25602

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. An x86 PV guest can trigger a host OS crash when handling guest access to MSRMISCENABLE. When a guest accesses certain Model Specific Registers, Xen first reads the value from hardware to use as the basis for auditing the guest access. For the...

x86 pv guest kernel DoS via SYSENTER

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The SYSENTER instruction leaves various state sanitization activities to software. One of Xen's sanitization paths injects a GP fault, and incorrectly delivers it twice to the guest. This causes the guest kernel to observe a kernel-privilege GP fault typically fatal rather than ...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1744-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds support for the Hygon Dhyana CPU fate327735. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-12614: An issue was discovered in dlparparseccproperty in...

SUSE-SU-2019:1744-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds support for the Hygon Dhyana CPU fate327735. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-12614: An issue was discovered in dlparparseccproperty in...