kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:2105-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-19462: relayopen in kernel/relay.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service such as relay blockage by triggering a NULL...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier is force-disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Enhanced IBPB Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier. The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation IBRS is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perfo...

PT-2020-21746

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions No specific software or versions are mentioned in the provided description. Description The issue is related to a crash type of Use-of-uninitialized-value. The crash state involves functions such as psscan and document load, and is associated...

PT-2020-21801

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions No specific software or versions are mentioned in the provided description. Description The issue is related to a crash type of Use-of-uninitialized-value. The crash state involves several functions and files, including psscan, document load,...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier is force-disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Enhanced IBPB Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier. The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation IBRS is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perfo...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier is force-disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Enhanced IBPB Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier. The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation IBRS is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perfo...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier is force-disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Enhanced IBPB Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier. The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation IBRS is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perfo...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier is force-disabled when STIBP is unavailable or enhanced IBRS is available.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Enhanced IBPB Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier. The IBPB mitigation will be disabled when STIBP is not available or when the Enhanced Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation IBRS is available. This flaw allows a local attacker to perfo...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2020-1401)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.186-110.268. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1401 advisory. An issue where a provided address with accessok is not checked was discovered in i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl in...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2020-2933)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-2933 advisory. - x86 x86/speculation: Provide SRBDS late microcode loading support Waiman Long 1827185 CVE-2020-0543 - documentation x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affecte...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.31.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.31.1 - x86 x86/speculation: Provide SRBDS late microcode loading support Waiman Long 1827185 CVE-2020-0543 - documentation x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list Waiman Long 1827185 CVE-2020-0543 - documentation x86/speculation...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20200715)

Security Fixes : - kernel: powerpc: incomplete Spectre-RSB mitigation leads to information exposure CVE-2019-18660 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid138538; scriptversion"1.3";...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue where a provided address with accessok is not checked was discovered in i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gemexecbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory...

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

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...