USN-6952-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use this to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6953-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities (USN-6953-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6953-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for systemd (EulerOS-SA-2024-2095)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for systemd (EulerOS-SA-2024-2112)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6952-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6952-1 advisory. Benedict Schlter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and...

USN-6951-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - User-Mode Linux UML; - x86 architecture; - Accessibility subsystem; -...

Black Hat USA 2024: Chip Flaw ‘GhostWrite’ Steals Data from CPU Memory

Black Hat USA 2024: Critical RISC-V CPU vulnerability discovered. Dubbed GhostWrite; attackers can exploit this flaw to steal…...

org.bouncycastle: Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters may lead to Denial of Service

A vulnerability was found in Bouncy Castle. An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java BC Java. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to denial of service due to python ( CVE-2022-45061 )

Summary Python is used by IBM Cloud Pak for Data. CVE-2022-45061. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-45061 DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA RFC 3490 decoder. By sendi...

kernel: genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline The absence of IRQDMOVEPCNTXT prevents immediate effectiveness of interrupt affinity reconfiguration via procfs. Instead, the change is deferred until the next...

kernel: genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline The absence of IRQDMOVEPCNTXT prevents immediate effectiveness of interrupt affinity reconfiguration via procfs. Instead, the change is deferred until the next...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: microcode_ctl-2.1-61.1.fc40

The microcodectl utility is a companion to the microcode driver written by Tigran Aivazian . The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system boot i.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently, reboot and it reverts back to the old microcode...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6949-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6949-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update...

EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2024-2095)

According to the versions of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service CP...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6951-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6951-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update...

CVE-2024-42241

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed For shmem files, it's possible that PMD-sized page cache can't be supported by xarray. For example, 512MB page cache on ARM64 when the base page size is 64KB can't be supported by...

CVE-2024-42240

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/bhi: Avoid warning in DB handler due to BHI mitigation When BHI mitigation is enabled, if SYSENTER is invoked with the TF flag set then entrySYSENTERcompat uses CLEARBRANCHHISTORY and calls the clearbhbloop before the TF flag...

CVE-2024-42241 mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed For shmem files, it's possible that PMD-sized page cache can't be supported by xarray. For example, 512MB page cache on ARM64 when the base page size is 64KB can't be supported by...

CVE-2024-42241 mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed For shmem files, it's possible that PMD-sized page cache can't be supported by xarray. For example, 512MB page cache on ARM64 when the base page size is 64KB can't be supported by...