Linux kernel memory leak vulnerability (CNVD-2019-41279)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. A memory leak vulnerability exists in the createresourcepool function under drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc in Linux...

FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Intel CPU Microcode Update Category: 3rd party Module: Intel CPU microcode Announced: 2019-11-12 Credits:...

CVE-2019-5049

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds memory write. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability. This...

Memory corruption

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds memory write. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability. This...

CVE-2019-5049

The CVE-2019-5049 entry notes an exploitable memory- corruption in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL (Radeon driver) versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds write, potentially allowing code execution from a VMware Workstation guest to affect the ...

CVE-2019-5049

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds memory write. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability. This...

A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode

Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna, even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer...

SUSE-RU-2019:2715-1 Recommended update for xen

This update for xen to version 4.12.1 fixes the following issues: - Fixed an issue which made Xen crash on AMD ROME based machines bsc1135799. - Xenpvnetboot is now ported correctly to Python 3 bsc1138563. - Added code to change LIBXLHOTPLUGTIMEOUT at runtime bsc1120095. The included README has...

Apple Tackles Over a Dozen Bugs in its Catalina 10.15 Update

Apple wasted little time snuffing out bugs in its macOS Catalina operating system. On Tuesday, Apple rolled out 16 patches addressing a wide range of Catalina bugs in components such as CoreAudio, IOGraphics and WebKit. The security fixes are exclusively for macOS 10.15; so pre-Catalina releases ...

About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Security Update 2018-003 Sierra, Security Update 2018-003 El Capitan - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15

About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15 This document describes the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or...

AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Open VMware Workstations to Attack

A remote code-execution bug exists in some configurations of the AMD Radeon graphics card that could allow an attacker to take control of a targeted system. The hack entails luring users of vulnerable systems to visit a specially crafted website that can deliver “a malformed pixel shader” to eith...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager has released a fixpack in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM has released the following a fixpack for IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager in response to CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to...

Vulnerability Spotlight: AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Some AMD Radeon cards contain a remote code execution vulnerability in their ATIDXX64.DLL driver. AMD produces the Radeon line of hardware, which includes graphics cards and graphics processing units. This specific vulnerability exists on...

AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds memory write. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability...

CVE-2019-16229

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfdinterrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16229

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfdinterrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id...

Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave

Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy code. Of course, that's not true. And there are no security mechanisms that can deal with malicious enclaves, because the designers...

Security update for vlc (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for vlc Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2015-1 Rating: important References: 1093732 1094893 1118586 1133290 1138354 1138933 1141522 1142161 1143547 1143549 Cross-References: CVE-2018-19857 CVE-2019-12874 CVE-2019-13602 CVE-2019-13962 CVE-2019-5439...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for vlc (openSUSE-SU-2019:1909-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...