New Spectre-Like Attacks

Theres new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically engineered to be resistant to the Spectre/Meltdown attacks of three years ago. Details: The new line of attacks exploits the micro-op...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.10.33 and fixes at least the following security issues: A race condition in Linux kernel SCTP sockets net/sctp/socket.c before 5.12-rc8 can lead to kernel privilege escalation from the context of a network service or an unprivileged process. If...

Spectre attacks come back from the dead

Spectre is the name for a whole class of vulnerabilities discovered in January 2018 that affected huge numbers of modern computer processors that rely on a performance feature called speculative execution. Since then, some of the world’s most talented computer scientists from industry and academi...

x86: Speculative vulnerabilities with bare (non-shim) 32-bit PV guests

ISSUE DESCRIPTION 32-bit x86 PV guest kernels run in ring 1. At the time when Xen was developed, this area of the i386 architecture was rarely used, which is why Xen was able to use it to implement paravirtualisation, Xen's novel approach to virtualization. In AMD64, Xen had to use a different...

New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was first announced three years ago. A paper published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.33 and fixes at least the following security issues: A race condition in Linux kernel SCTP sockets net/sctp/socket.c before 5.12-rc8 can lead to kernel privilege escalation from the context of a network service or an unprivileged process. If...

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations the pointer modification performed by the first operation is not correctly accounted for when restricting subsequent operations.

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Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1627)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.231-173.360. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1627 advisory. A memory leak in the adisupdatescanmode function in drivers/iio/imu/adisbuffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A memory leak in the adisupdatescanmode function in drivers/iio/imu/adisbuffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption, aka CID-ab612b1daf41. CVE-2019-19060 A bypass was found for the Spectre v1 hardening in the eBPF engi...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

AZL-6545 CVE-2021-29155 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.10.78.1-1

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

A vulnerability was discovered in retrieveptrlimit in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel mechanism to mitigate speculatively out-of-bounds loads Spectre mitigation. In this flaw a local, special user privileged CAPSYSADMIN BPF program running on affected systems may bypass the protection,...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155: Out-of-bounds Read

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

CVE-2021-29155 is a Linux kernel issue affecting the eBPF verifier path (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) that allows speculative-out-of-bounds memory accesses to leak kernel memory via side-channels. The description from connected documents ties the vulnerability to Spectre mitigations and notes that a lo...