kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.6.3.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.6.3 - kvm VMX: fixes for vmentryl1dflush module parameter Marcelo Tosatti 1628796 - x86 speculation: Use ARCHCAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry Marcelo Tosatti 1628796 - x86 KVM: VMX: skip L1TF flush on VM-entry if EPT is disabled...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15594

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 SVM PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service hypervisor crash or gain privileges because IDT settings are mishandled during CPU hotplugging...

x86: Incorrect handling of IST settings during CPU hotplug

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The x86-64 architecture allows interrupts to be run on distinct stacks. The choice of stack is encoded in a field of the corresponding interrupt descriptor in the Interrupt Descriptor Table IDT. That field selects an entry from the active Task State Segment TSS. Since, on AMD...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160512)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privilege...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2016:1033 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882493";...

OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0060)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - crypto: aesni - fix memory usage in GCM decryption Stephan Mueller Orabug: 21077385 CVE-2015-3331 - xen/pciback: Don't disable PCICOMMAND on PCI device reset. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 20807438...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-68.2.2 - crypto: aesni - fix memory usage in GCM decryption Stephan Mueller Orabug: 21077385 CVE-2015-3331 3.8.13-68.2.1 - xen/pciback: Don't disable PCICOMMAND on PCI device reset. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 20807438 CVE-2015-2150 - xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when...

Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2014-0743)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0743 advisory. 0.12.1.2-2.415.el65.10 - kvm-virtio-out-of-bounds-buffer-write-on-invalid-state-l.patch bz1095692 -...

qemu-kvm security and bug fix update

0.12.1.2-2.415.el65.10 - kvm-virtio-out-of-bounds-buffer-write-on-invalid-state-l.patch bz1095692 - kvm-usb-sanity-check-setupindex-setuplen-in-postload.patch bz1095743 - kvm-usb-sanity-check-setupindex-setuplen-in-postload-2.patch bz1095743 -...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Number 5732)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.54, fixing lots of bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A potential hypervisor escape by issuing SGIO commands to partitiondevices was fixed by restricting access to these commands. CVE-2011-4127 ...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-71.24.1.el6 - fs Revert 'fs inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure' Eric Paris 656831 656832 CVE-2010-4250 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6 - x86 Revert 'x86 mtrr: Assume SYSCFGTom2ForceMemTypeWB exists on all future AMD CPUs' Frank Arnold 683813 652208 2.6.32-71.22.1.el6 - rebuild...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.33.1.0.1.EL - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.31.1.0.1.EL - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

kernel security update

2.6.9-89.0.29.0.1.EL - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.26.0.1.EL - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.23.0.1 - XEN fix cpu hotplug crash Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN Bring up vcpus before khelper init Joe Jin orabug 7521308 - XEN flush the tlb cache immediately Dave McCracken, Scott Shi orabug 9138767 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:086)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Prior to Linux kernel 2.6.16.5, the kernel does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS...