UK Electoral Commission Admits Major Data Breach Spanning Over a Year

By Habiba Rashid The compromised electoral registers contained information from 2014 to 2022, including the names and addresses of voters, both domestic and overseas. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UK Electoral Commission Admits Major Data Breach Spanning Over a Year...

x86/Intel: Gather Data Sampling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A researcher has discovered Gather Data Sampling, a transient execution side-channel whereby the AVX GATHER instructions can forward the content of stale vector registers to dependent instructions. The physical register file is a structure competitively shared between sibling...

USN-6244-1 amd64-microcode vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information...

LSN-0096-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

It was discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC USB WiFi driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform data buffer size validation in some situations. A physically proximate attacker could use this to craft a malicious USB device that when inserted, could cause a denial of service system crash ...

Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in Golang Go

Summary Vulnerabilities in golang before 1.19.10 affect the golang component that is used by IBM Event Streams CVE-2023-29402, CVE-2023-29403, CVE-2023-29404, CVE-2023-29405. These vulnerabilities have been addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-29403 DESCRIPTION: Golang Go could allow a...

x86/AMD: Zenbleed

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Researchers at Google have discovered Zenbleed, a hardware bug causing corruption of the vector registers. When a VZEROUPPER instruction is discarded as part of a bad transient execution path, its effect on internal tracking are not unwound correctly. This manifests as the wrong...

RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2023:4138)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4138 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

OESA-2023-1404 golang security update

The Go Programming Language Security Fixes: On Unix platforms, the Go runtime does not behave differently when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. This can be dangerous in certain cases, such as when dumping memory state, or assuming the status of standard i/o file descriptors. If a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-35001

Linux Kernel nftables Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write Vulnerability; nftbyteorder poorly handled vm register contents when CAPNETADMIN is in any user or network namespace...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-35001

Linux Kernel nftables Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write Vulnerability; nftbyteorder poorly handled vm register contents when CAPNETADMIN is in any user or network namespace...

USN-6175-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrar...

CLSA-2023-1686651204 kernel: Fix of 25 CVEs

cgroup: Use open-time cgroup namespace for process migration perm checks CVE-2021-4197 - cgroup: Use open-time credentials for process migraton perm checks CVE-2021-4197 - vt: drop old FONT ioctls CVE-2021-33656 - fbmem: Check virtual screen sizes in fbsetvar CVE-2021-33655 - fbcon: Prevent that...

AZL-52789 CVE-2023-29403 affecting package golang for versions less than 1.20.7-1

On Unix platforms, the Go runtime does not behave differently when a binary is run with the setuid/setgid bits. This can be dangerous in certain cases, such as when dumping memory state, or assuming the status of standard i/o file descriptors. If a setuid/setgid binary is executed with standard I...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6135-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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-6124-1 linux-oem-5.17 vulnerabilities

Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrar...

kernel: drm/radeon: fix potential buffer overflow in ni_set_mc_special_registers()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/radeon: fix potential buffer overflow in nisetmcspecialregisters The last case label can write two buffers 'mcregaddressj' and 'mcdataj' with 'j' offset equal to SMCNISLANDSMCREGISTERARRAYSIZE since there are no checks for th...

PT-2025-18565 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved, specifically in the phy: qcom-qmp-combo module. The issue involved a NULL pointer dereference when resuming execution, due to...

PT-2023-2580 · Ibm · Ibm Db2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows includes Db2 Connect Server versions 10.1, 11.1, and 11.5 Description: The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the database management system, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-30456

An issue was discovered in arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.8. nVMX on x8664 lacks consistency checks for CR0 and CR4...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel power management function allows a hacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel power management function relates to the use of hidden time channels for data transmission during the processing of model-specific registers MSRs. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected...