Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5094-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

USN-5092-2 linux-hwe-5.11, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.11, linux-oracle-5.11 vulnerabilities

Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-41073 Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in...

USN-5094-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker who could start and control a VM could possibly use this to expose sensitive information or execute...

USN-5094-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker who could start and control a VM could possibly use this to expose sensitive information or execute...

USN-5092-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-41073 Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in...

USN-5091-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 vulnerabilities

Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel missed possible mispredicted branches due to type confusion, allowing a side-channel attack. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-33624 It was...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5091-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5091-1 advisory. Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel missed possible...

The vulnerability of the arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c component of the Linux operating system, related to pointer dereferencing errors, allows an attacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c component of the Linux operating system is related to pointer dereferencing errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to trigger a service failure using the perf record command...

USN-5070-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2021-3447)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-3447 advisory. - KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix HRTAS rets buffer overflow Jon Maloy 1988225 1988226 CVE-2021-37576 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:3447)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3447 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users ca...

kernel security and bug fix update

4.18.0-305.17.14.OL8 - Update Oracle Linux certificates Kevin Lyons - Disable signing for aarch64 Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 - Conflict with shim-ia32 and...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

ALSA-2021:3447 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption CVE-2021-37576 kernel: slab-out-of-bounds access in xdrsetpagebase in net/sunrpc/xdr.c CVE-2021-38201 For more details abou...

RLSA-2021:3447 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption CVE-2021-37576 kernel: slab-out-of-bounds access in xdrsetpagebase in net/sunrpc/xdr.c CVE-2021-38201 For more details abou...

kernel security and bug fix update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...