kernel: x86-64: IRET faults during NMIs processing

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially although highly unlikely, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0185 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160216)

It was found that the Linux kernel's keys subsystem did not correctly garbage collect uninstantiated keyrings. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-7872, Important - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:0185)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

kernel: x86-64: IRET faults during NMIs processing

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially although highly unlikely, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: x86-64: IRET faults during NMIs processing

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially although highly unlikely, escalate their privileges on the system...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2014-3047)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

AZL-34850 CVE-2015-5157 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.22.1-2

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5157

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

CVE-2015-5157

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

CVE-2015-5157

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

AZL-34324 CVE-2015-5157 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.153.1-1

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

Design/Logic Flaw

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

CVE-2015-5157

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64

============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64 Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Local privilege escalation in IRET handler Category: core Module: sysamd64 Announced: 2015-08-25 Credits: Konstantin Belousov, Andrew Lutomirski Affect...

CVE-2015-5157: Undefined Security Weakness

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

FreeBSD Kernel sys_amd64 IRET Processor Denial of Service Vulnerability

FreeBSD is a BSD-based operating system. FreeBSD has a security vulnerability that allows local users to return SS or NP anomalous IRETs that can lead to denial of service or elevation of privilege...

FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64 Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Local privilege escalation in IRET handler Category: core Module: sysamd64 Announced: 2015-08-25...

FreeBSD -- Local privilege escalation in IRET handler

Problem Description: If the kernel-mode IRET instruction generates an SS or NP exception, but the exception handler does not properly ensure that the right GS register base for kernel is reloaded, the userland GS segment may be used in the context of the kernel exception handler. Impact: By causi...