Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4162-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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-2018-10853

A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current privilegeCPL level while emulating unprivileged instructions. An unprivileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate privileges inside...

USN-4163-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ARC EMAC ethernet driver for the Linux kernel, resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10906 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial...

USN-4163-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ARC EMAC ethernet driver for the Linux kernel, resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10906 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial...

USN-4157-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-4157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 19.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 19.04 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Wen Huang discovered that the Marvell Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4162-1)

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-4162-1 advisory. It was discovered that the RSI 91x Wi-Fi driver in the Linux kernel did not did not handle detach operations correctly, leading to a...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-4157-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4157-2 advisory. USN-4157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 19.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2706-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-15291: There was a NULL pointer dereference, caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcopusbprobe function in the drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c...

Ubuntu 19.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4157-1)

Wen Huang discovered that the Marvell Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking, leading to a heap overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815,...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0200)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain central processing units CPU speculatively access memory, aka 'Windows Kernel Informatio...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0180)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel KVM hypervisor before 4.18 emulated instructions such as sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor. It did not check current...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-2308)

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-15291: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcopusbprobe function in the drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c driver...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4808)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4808 advisory. - floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in copybuffer Denis Efremov Orabug: 30318219 CVE-2019-14283 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

CVE-2019-14821

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last'...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1293)

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last' value could be supplied by a host user-space...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1293)

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last' value could be supplied by a host user-space...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last' value could be supplied by a host...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4799)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4799 advisory. 4.14.35-1902.5.2.2 - KVM: coalescedmmio: add bounds checking Matt Delco Orabug: 30318013 CVE-2019-14821 CVE-2019-14821 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

MGASA-2019-0287 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.145 and fixes at least the following security issues: There is heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver that allows local users to cause a denial of servicesystem crash or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2019-14814,...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 5.2.16 and fixes at least the following security issues: There is heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver that allows local users to cause a denial of servicesystem crash or possibly execute arbitrary code CVE-2019-14814,...