CVE-2022-29901

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under...

Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2022-9590)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9590 advisory. - floppy: use a statically allocated error counter Willy Tarreau Orabug: 34218638 CVE-2022-1652 - x86: Disable RET on kexec Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk...

CVE-2022-29901 Arbitrary Memory Disclosure through CPU Side-Channel Attacks (Retbleed)

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under...

AMD CPU Branch Type Confusion

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1037 Potential Impact: Information disclosure, arbitrary speculative code execution Severity: Medium Summary This security bulletin addresses two issues related to CVE-2017-5715 previously known as Spectre Variant 2. As part of our efforts to continue improving security...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5415-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5418-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5417-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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-5418-1 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

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-5418-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-5417-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.13, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.13, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.13, linux-hwe-5.13, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-5417-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-5415-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-27820 Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2018-037-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2018-057-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2022:0755-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0755-1 advisory. - Amazon Linux has been made aware of a potential Branch Target Injection BTI issue sometimes referred to as Spectre variant 2. This is a...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2022:0760-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0760-1 advisory. - Amazon Linux has been made aware of a potential Branch Target Injection BTI issue sometimes referred to as Spectre variant 2. This is a...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5095-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2022:0768-1)

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0768-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Transient execution side-channel attacks attacking...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A buffer overflow flaw in the Linux kernel BPF subsystem was found in the way users run BPF with long jump over an instruction sequence where inner instructions require substantial expansions into multiple BPF instructions. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or...

LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1036 Potential Impact: Loss of Confidentiality Severity: Medium Summary AMD is providing an update for one recommended mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 previously known as Spectre Variant 2. The speculative execution window of AMD LFENCE/JMP mitigation MITIGATION V2-2 may be large...