OESA-2023-1197 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return...

PT-2023-2068

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a deadlock flaw in the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem, which can be exploited by a local user to potentially crash the system. Additionally, there is a problem with...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: mariadb (CVE-2022-31622)

The version of mariadb installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-31622 advisory. - MariaDB Server before 10.7 is vulnerable to Denial of Service. In extra/mariabackup/dscompress.cc, when an...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-5979-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5979-1 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs...

kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control TC subsystem. Using a specific networking configuration redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred" a local unprivileged user could trigger a CPU soft lockup ABBA deadlock when the transport protocol in use TCP or SCTP does a...

TensorFlow vulnerable to integer overflow in EditDistance

Impact TFversion 2.11.0 //tensorflow/core/ops/arrayops.cc:1067 const Tensor hypothesisshapet = c-inputtensor2; std::vector dimshypothesisshapet-NumElements - 1; for int i = 0; i MakeDimstd::maxhvaluesi, tvaluesi; if hypothesisshapet is empty, hypothesisshapet-NumElements - 1 will be integer...

Ubuntu 22.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5970-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5970-1 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An...

CVE-2023-0160

A deadlock flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s BPF subsystem. The fail happens in the function sockhashdeleteelem. This flaw allows a local user to potentially crash the system. Mitigation The default Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel prevents unprivileged users from being able to use eBPF by the...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2023-1706)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.305-155.531. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1706 advisory. Guests can trigger NIC interface reset/abort/crash via netback It is possible for a guest to trigger a NIC interfac...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2022-42329)

The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-42329 advisory. - Guests can trigger deadlock in Linux netback driver This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; th...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2022-42328)

The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-42328 advisory. - Guests can trigger deadlock in Linux netback driver This CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; th...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities (USN-5962-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5962-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain...

kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control TC subsystem. Using a specific networking configuration redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred" a local unprivileged user could trigger a CPU soft lockup ABBA deadlock when the transport protocol in use TCP or SCTP does a...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities (USN-5951-1)

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-5951-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state i...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities (USN-5940-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5940-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : conmon, libcontainers-common, libseccomp, podman (SUSE-SU-2022:23018-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:23018-1 advisory. - An information disclosure vulnerability was found in containers/podman in versions before 2.0.5. When using the deprecated Varlink...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities (USN-5941-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5941-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-5939-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5939-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities (USN-5938-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5938-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain...

USN-5928-1: systemd vulnerabilities

It was discovered that systemd did not properly validate the time and accuracy values provided to the formattimespan function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overrun, leading to a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM,...