kernel: Rogue cross-process SSBD shutdown. Linux scheduler logical bug allows an attacker to turn off the SSBD protection.

A logic bug flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per...

CVE-2020-10766

A logic bug flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10766

A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced...

PAN-OS: Panorama context switch session cookie disclosure

A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Panorama that discloses an authenticated PAN-OS administrator's PAN-OS session cookie. When an administrator issues a context switch request into a managed firewall with an affected PAN-OS Panorama versio...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the Linux kernel when running on AMD64 systems. During a context switch, EFLAGS were being neither saved nor restored...

USN-4302-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux-azure vulnerabilities

Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel could improperly let a nested level 2 guest access the resources of a parent level 1 guest in certain situations. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2020-2732 Gregory Herrero discovere...

USN-4285-1 linux-aws-5.0, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oracle-5.0 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-14615 It was discovered that the HSA Linux kernel driver for AMD GPU devices did not...

MGASA-2020-0089 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides upstream 5.4.20, adding support for new hardware and features, and resolves at least the following security issues: In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This...

CVE-2019-19895

In IXP EasyInstall 6.2.13723, there is Lateral Movement using the Agent Service against other users on a client system. An authenticated attacker can, by modifying %SYSTEMDRIVE%\IXP\SW\PACKAGECODE\EveryLogon.bat, achieve this movement and execute code in the context of other users...

drm graphics drivers -- potential information disclusure via local access

Intel reports: .A potential security vulnerability in IntelR Processor Graphics may allow information disclosure. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Description: Insufficient control flow in certain data structures for some IntelR Processors with IntelR...

Fedora 30 : xen (2019-53b0dc52ee)

xen: various flaws 1685577 grant table transfer issues on large hosts XSA-284 race with pass-through device hotplug XSA-285 x86: stealpage violates pagestruct access discipline XSA-287 x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline XSA-288 missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation XSA-290 x86/P...

x86: PV kernel context switch corruption

ISSUE DESCRIPTION On hardware supporting the fsgsbase feature, 64bit PV guests can set and clear the applicable control bit in its virtualised %cr4, but the feature remains fully active in hardware. Therefore, the associated instructions are actually usable. Linux, which does not currently suppor...

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 7. 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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2776-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.155 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-13093: Prevent NULL pointer dereference and panic in lookupslow on a NULL inode-iops pointer when doing pathwalks on a corrupted xfs image. Th...

Design/Logic Flaw

The spectrev2selectmitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15572

The spectrev2selectmitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks...

CVE-2018-15572

The spectrev2selectmitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks...

CVE-2018-15572

The spectrev2selectmitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks...

CVE-2018-15572

The spectrev2selectmitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15572

The spectrev2selectmitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18.1 does not always fill RSB upon a context switch, which makes it easier for attackers to conduct userspace-userspace spectreRSB attacks...