kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating...

RLSA-2021:3547 Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fixes: kernel: SVM nested virtualization issue in KVM AVIC support CVE-2021-3653 For more details about the security issues, including the impact...

kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update is available for kernel-rt. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables...

CentOS 8 : kernel (CESA-2021:3548)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:3548 advisory. - kernel: SVM nested virtualization issue in KVM AVIC support CVE-2021-3653 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest L2. Due to improper validation of the "intctl" field, this issue could...

RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:3547)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3547 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Securi...

Siemens Teamcenter

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.2 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: Teamcenter Vulnerability: Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions, Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key, Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference 2. RISK...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5072-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5072-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5073-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5071-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5071-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5070-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5070-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable...

USN-5072-1 linux-azure-5.8, linux-oem-5.10 vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5070-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.11, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.11, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization Host security and bug fix update [ovirt-4.4.8]

An update for cockpit-ovirt, ovirt-host, ovirt-hosted-engine-ha, ovirt-hosted-engine-setup, and vdsm is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-5062-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5062-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a guest VM from enabling AVIC in...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the TACACS authentication system in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS relates to bypassing authentication using an alternative username. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to elevate their privileges to the level of an administrator...

OESA-2021-1331 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: arch/x86/kvm/mmu/pagingtmpl.h in the Linux kernel before 5.12.11 incorrectly computes the access permissions of a shadow page, leading to a missing guest protection page fault.CVE-2021-38198...

kernel: Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM implementation, where improper handing of the VMIO|VMPFNMAP VMAs in KVM bypasses RO checks and leads to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This flaw allows users who can start and control a VM to read/write random pages of...