OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0873-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-29650: Fixed an issue with the netfilter subsystem that allowed attackers to cause a denial of service panic because net/netfilter/xtables.c and...

SUSE-SU-2021:1929-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: Updated to Intel CPU Microcode 20210608 release. - CVE-2020-24513: A domain bypass transient execution vulnerability was discovered on some Intel Atom processors that use a micro-architectural incident channel. INTEL-SA-00465 bsc1179833 See...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3927-1)

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...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel related to mm/gup.c and mm/hugememory.c. The getuserpages aka gup implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended read access...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1636)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.232-176.381. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1636 advisory. 2024-05-23: CVE-2021-46909 was added to this advisory. 2024-05-23: CVE-2021-46974 was added to this advisory...

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,...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:1377-2)

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-4162-2: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

USN-4162-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that the RSI 91x Wi-Fi driver in the Linux kernel did not did not handle detach...

USN-4163-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-4163-1 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 ESM. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ARC EMAC ethernet driver for th...

USN-4163-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ARC EMAC ethernet driver for the Linux kernel, resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10906 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Serial...

USN-4157-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-4157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 19.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 19.04 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Wen Huang discovered that the Marvell Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4162-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4162-1 advisory. It was discovered that the RSI 91x Wi-Fi driver in the Linux kernel did not did not handle detach operations correctly, leading to a...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4163-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4163-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the ARC EMAC ethernet driver for the Linux kernel, resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-4157-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4157-2 advisory. USN-4157-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 19.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu 19.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4157-1)

Wen Huang discovered that the Marvell Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking, leading to a heap overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815,...

bpftool, kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:2029 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

SUSE-SU-2019:14157-1 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-2019-14284: The drivers/block/floppy.c allowed a denial of service by setupformatparams division-by-zero. Two consecutive ioctls can trigger the bug: the fir...

Authorization Bypass

kernel is vulnerable to authorization bypass. The vulnerability exists through the mishandling of indirect calls weakens Spectre mitigation for paravirtual guests...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2019:0717)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:0717 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...