USN-5338-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2022-0492 Jürgen Groß discovered that the Xen subsystem within the...

USN-5338-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, lnux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities

Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgroups implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict access to the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2022-0492 Jürgen Groß discovered that the Xen subsystem within the...

USN-5337-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.13, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.13, linux-hwe-5.13, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict pointer types in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-23222 Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgrou...

USN-5337-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict pointer types in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-23222 Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang discovered that the cgrou...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_58_1 security and bug fix update

An update for kpatch-patch-4180-147581 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw under certain circumstances allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

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systemd bug fix and enhancement update

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes...

systemd bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for systemd. 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 systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux,...

RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:0851)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0851 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel...

RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:0849)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0849 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, i...

RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2022:0819)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0819 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroupreleaseagentwrite in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly...

kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroupreleaseagentwrite in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly...

kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroupreleaseagentwrite in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly...

kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroupreleaseagentwrite in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroupreleaseagentwrite in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly...

Slackware Linux 15.0 kernel-generic Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-067-01)

The version of kernel-generic installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.27 / 5.15.27smp. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-067-01 advisory. - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsxusbmsdrvremove in drivers/memstick/host/rtsxusbms.c ...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: AMD recommends using a software mitigation for this issue, which the kernel is enabling by default. The Linux kernel will use the generic retpoline software mitigation, instead of the specialized AMD one, on AMD instances 5a. This is done by default, and no administrator action is...