USN-7089-7 linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-25741 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An...

Oracle Linux 9 : edk2 (ELSA-2024-9088)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-9088 advisory. - Resolves: RHEL-55336 CVE-2024-6119 edk2/openssl: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks rhel-9.5 - Resolves: RHEL-21653 CVE-2023-6237 edk2:...

USN-7089-6 linux-gke vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-25741 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An...

USN-7088-5 linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the VMware Virtual GPU DRM driver in the Linux kernel contained an integer overflow vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-36402 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could...

USN-7089-5 linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-25741 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An...

The vulnerability of the kasprintf() function in the arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c file of the Linux kernel, related to pointer arithmetic errors, allows a malicious actor to trigger a system failure.

The vulnerability of the kasprintf function in the arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c file of the Linux kernel is related to pointer arithmetic errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

edk2 security update

20240524-6.0.1 - Replace upstream references Orabug:36569119 20240524-6 - edk2-OvmfPkg-CpuHotplugSmm-delay-SMM-exit.patch RHEL-56974 - edk2-Bumped-openssl-submodule-version-to-0205b5898872.patch RHEL-55336 - Resolves: RHEL-56974 qemu-kvm: warning: Blocked re-entrant IO on MemoryRegion:...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s powerpc/pseries kernel components, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the powerpc/pseries kernel components in the Linux operating system is related to a memory leak. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7089-4)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7089-4 advisory. Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local...

USN-7100-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Supraja Sridhara, Benedict Schlüter, Mark Kuhne, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that the Confidential Computing framework in the Linux kernel for x86 platforms did not properly handle 32-bit emulation on TDX and SEV. An attacker with access to the VMM could use this to cause a deni...

openssl: POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupts vector registers on PowerPC

A flaw was found in in the POLY1305 MAC message authentication code implementation in OpenSSL, affecting applications running on PowerPC CPU-based platforms that utilize vector instructions, and has the potential to corrupt the internal state of these applications. If an attacker can manipulate t...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security update

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

kernel: powerpc: Fix access beyond end of drmem array

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, specifically affecting the PowerPC architecture's pseries memory hotplug functionality. The issue arises from the dlparmemoryremovebyindex function, which may access memory beyond the bounds of the drmem logical memory block LMB array when it fails to find a...

kernel: powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu- results in a BUG when the config CONFIGHARDENEDUSERCOPY is enabled as shown below. kernel...

kernel: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

kernel: powerpc/kasan: Fix addr error caused by page alignment

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/kasan: Fix addr error caused by page alignment In kasaninitregion, when kstart is not page aligned, at the begin of for loop, kcur = kstart & PAGEMASK is less than kstart, and then va = block + kcur - kstart is less than...

kernel: powerpc/pseries: Rework lppaca_shared_proc() to avoid DEBUG_PREEMPT

A debug warning issue was found in PowerPC pseries code. When DEBUGPREEMPT is enabled, accessing lppacasharedproc triggers spurious preemption warnings because it uses smpprocessorid in preemptible context...

kernel: powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix interrupt exit race with security mitigation switch

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix interrupt exit race with security mitigation switch The RFI and STF security mitigation options can flip the interruptexitnotreentrant static branch condition concurrently with the interrupt exit code...

kernel: powerpc/smp: do not decrement idle task preempt count in CPU offline

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's powerpc/smp architecture, where the idle task's preemption count was incorrectly decremented during the CPU offline process. This issue caused a "scheduling while atomic" error when a CPU was offlined and then onlined again, leading to potential...

kernel: powerpc/lib: Validate size for vector operations

A potential stack corruption flaw was found in arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c in the Linux kernel. This may lead to compromised Confidentiality, Integrity, or Availability...