Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-45817

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In x86's APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller architecture, error conditions are reported in a status register. Furthermore, the OS can opt to receiv...

ALPINE-CVE-2024-45817

In x86's APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller architecture, error conditions are reported in a status register. Furthermore, the OS can opt to receive an interrupt when a new error occurs. It is possible to configure the error interrupt with an illegal vector, which generates an error...

kernel: x86/i8259: Mark legacy PIC interrupts with IRQ_LEVEL

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/i8259: Mark legacy PIC interrupts with IRQLEVEL Baoquan reported that after triggering a crash the subsequent crash-kernel fails to boot about half of the time. It triggers a NULL pointer dereference in the periodic tick code...

hw: cpu: Intel: Stale Data Read from legacy xAPIC vulnerability

A flaw was found in hw. The APIC can operate in xAPIC mode also known as a legacy mode, in which APIC configuration registers are exposed through a memory-mapped I/O MMIO page. This flaw allows an attacker who can execute code on a target CPU to query the APIC configuration page. When reading the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update

An updated rhev-hypervisor6 package that fixes several security issues and various bugs is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Null pointer dereference

The updatecr8intercept function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc1 does not properly handle the absence of an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller APIC, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system...