Important kernel security update: CVE-2018-1087 and other; Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch 51.1 for Virtuozzo 7.0.3 to 7.0.7 HF2

The cumulative Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch was updated with security fixes. The patch applies to all supported Virtuozzo 7.0 kernels. Vulnerability id: CVE-2018-1087 A flaw was found in how KVM handled exceptions delivered after Mov SS or Pop SS instructions have encountered a breakpoint. As a...

CVE-2018-1087

kernel KVM before versions kernel 4.16, kernel 4.16-rc7, kernel 4.17-rc1, kernel 4.17-rc2 and kernel 4.17-rc3 is vulnerable to a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch...

SUSE-SU-2018:1220-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-1087: And an unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges inside a guest. bsc1087088 - CVE-2018-8897: A...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2018-1318)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1318 advisory. - x86 kvm: fix icebp instruction handling Paolo Bonzini 1566849 1566845 CVE-2018-1087 - x86 entry/64: Don't use IST entry for BP stack Paolo Bonzini...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1347)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1347 advisory. - Kernel: KVM: error in exception handling leads to wrong debug stack value CVE-2018-1087 - Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS...

SUSE-SU-2018:1171-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-1087: And an unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges inside a guest. bsc1087088 - CVE-2018-8897: An...

USN-3619-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3619-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04...

SUSE-SU-2018:1080-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3631-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3631-1 advisory. It was discovered that a buffer overread vulnerability existed in the keyring subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2018-1062)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1062 advisory. - acpi sbshc: remove raw pointer from printk message Baoquan He 1547009 CVE-2018-5750 - media v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: refactor compat ioctl32 logic fixu...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3620-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3620-1 advisory. It was discovered that the netlink 802.11 configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate some attributes passed from userspace. A...

SUSE-SU-2018:0848-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-1068: Fixed flaw in the implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range ...

USN-3597-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USNS 3541-1 and 3523-1 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754 for the i386, amd64, and ppc64el architectures in Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding mitigations for the arm64 architecture. Original advisory details: Jann Horn...

Description of the security update for the Windows Kernel vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2008: March 13, 2018

Description of the security update for the Windows Kernel vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2008: March 13, 2018 Summary An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3582-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3582-1 advisory. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage....

MGASA-2018-0127 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on the upstream 4.14.18 and adds some support for mitigating Spectre, variant 1 CVE-2017-5753 and as it is built with the retpoline-aware gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6, it now provides full retpoline mitigation for Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. The BPF interpreter has bee...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0022)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0022 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

SUSE-SU-2017:3265-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-16649: The usbnetgenericcdcbind function in drivers/net/usb/cdcether.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service divide-by-ze...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities (USN-3485-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3485-3 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel when creating and deleting a port via ioctl. A local attacker...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:3200)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3200 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition issue leading to a...