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,...

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'...

Design/Logic Flaw

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'...

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'...

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'...

Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2019-2703)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2703 advisory. - wireless mwifiex: fix 802.11n/WPA detection Jarod Wilson 1714475 1714476 CVE-2019-3846 - x86 x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ Josh Poimboeuf...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : kernel-rt Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0086)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has kernel-rt packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to improve the performance of writing data back to CPU caches. The writ...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0044)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A buffer overflow vulnerability due to a lack of input filtering of incoming fragmented datagrams was found in the IP-over-1394 driver firewire-net ...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0085)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor emulates a preemption timer for L2 guests when nested =1...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2019-1633)

According to the versions of the qemu-kvm packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for the KVM hypervisor. qemu-kvm acts as a...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1587)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A malformed SGIO ioctl issued for a SCSI device in the Linux kernel leads to a local kernel data leak manifesting in up to approximately 1000...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1407) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.179 to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127:...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1407-1 Rating: important References: 1012382 1020645 1020989 1031492 1047487 1051510 1053043 1062056 1063638 1064388 1066223 1070872 1085539 1087092 1094244 1096480 1096728 1097104 1100132 1103186...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides the upstream 4.14.119 that adds the kernel side mitigations for the Microarchitectural Data Sampling MDS, also called ZombieLoad attack vulnerabilities in Intel processors that can allow attackers to retrieve data being processed inside a CPU. To complete the mitigatio...

Use-After-Free

Linux kernel is vulnerable to use-after-free attacks. This is because the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements its device control API While creating a device via kvmioctlcreatedevice. An attacker could use this flaw to crash the guest VM resulting in a denial of service issue or...

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-3980-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3980-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.10 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas, Andre...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : kvm (EulerOS-SA-2019-1369)

According to the version of the kvm package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - An information leakage issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled page fault exceptions while emulating instructio...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1302)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem code. A use-after-free is possible in ext4extremovespace function when mounting and...

CVE-2019-3887

A flaw was found in the way KVM hypervisor handled x2APIC Machine Specific Rregister MSR access with nested=1 virtualization enabled. In that, L1 guest could access L0's APIC register values via L2 guest, when 'virtualize x2APIC mode' is enabled. A guest could use this flaw to potentially crash t...