Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-3690

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains...

K17199: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2014-3690

Security Advisory Description arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2015:0178-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

SUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0178-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-0290)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

SOL17199 - Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2014-3690

Note: As of February 17, 2015, AskF5 Security Advisory articles include the Severity value. Security Advisory articles published before this date do not list a Severity value. Recommended Action If the previous table lists a version in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column, you can...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0178-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.36 to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2014-8559: The dwalk function in fs/dcache.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly maintain the semantics of renamelock, which allowed loca...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2015:0864 centos6

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882174";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150421)

A flaw was found in the way seunshare, a utility for running executables under a different security context, used the capnglock functionality of the libcap-ng library. The subsequent invocation of suid root binaries that relied on the fact that the setuid system call, among others, also sets the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the first regular update. Red Hat Product Security has rated this...

Fedora Update for kernel FEDORA-2014-16632

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.868583";...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2014:230)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel : The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause...

USN-2418-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

USN-2417-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2417-1)

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

Fedora 19 : kernel-3.14.23-100.fc19 (2014-14068)

The 3.14.23 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Various security fixes for KVM and SCTP Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

CVE-2014-3690

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service system disruption by...

CVE-2014-3690

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service system disruption by...

CVE-2014-3690

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service system disruption by...

Debian DSA-3060-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service : - CVE-2014-3610 Lars Bull of Google and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers. A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to cause a deni...