Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: linux-firmware security update

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a...

x86/AMD: Debug Mask handling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION AMD CPUs since 2014 have extensions to normal x86 debugging functionality. Xen supports guests using these extensions. Unfortunately there are errors in Xen's handling of the guest state, leading to denials of service. 1 CVE-2023-34327 - An HVM vCPU can end up operating in the...

x86/AMD: missing IOMMU TLB flushing

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The caching invalidation guidelines from the AMD-Vi specification 48882—Rev 3.07-PUB—Oct 2022 is incorrect on some hardware, as devices will malfunction see stale DMA mappings if some fields of the DTE are updated but the IOMMU TLB is not flushed. Such stale DMA mappings can poi...

RHEL 9 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2023:5607)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5607 advisory. The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate. Security Fixes: hw: amd: Cross-Process...

RHEL 8 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2023:5591)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5591 advisory. The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate. Security Fixes: hw: amd: Cross-Process...

K000137188: AMD CPU vulnerability CVE-2021-26401

Security Advisory Description LFENCE/JMP mitigation V2-2 may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs. CVE-2021-26401 Impact There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has evaluated the currently supporte...

Fedora 38 : fwupd (2023-48c43df788)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-48c43df788 advisory. This release adds the following features: Add a launchd agent for macOS Add a new security attribute for BIOS capsule updates to be enabled Add functionality...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux SIG Cloud 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...

USN-6416-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service excessive CPU consumption. CVE-2023-1206 Daniël Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6416-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6416-2 advisory. It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3988-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3988-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6396-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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-6396-2: Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling thread. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2022-27672 Daniel Moghimi discovered that some IntelR Processors...

USN-6244-1: AMD Microcode vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could...

Ubuntu 18.04 ESM : Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities (USN-6396-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6396-2 advisory. It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling thread....

USN-6319-1: AMD Microcode vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description Daniël Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi discovered that some AMD processors utilising speculative execution and branch prediction may allow...

SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-64kb / cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-64kb / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3971-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3971-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Th...

SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-64kb / cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-64kb / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3969-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3969-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Th...

USN-6416-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service excessive CPU consumption. CVE-2023-1206 Daniel Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi...

USN-6415-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Daniel Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi discovered that some AMD processors utilising speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorised memory reads via a speculative side-channel attack. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel...