Is Apple about to embrace third-party app stores?

On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is preparing to allow access to third-party app stores on all iPhone and iPad devices owned by EU users, in anticipation of a new EU competition law coming into force in mid-2024. If the reporting is correct, then in future users in the EU will no longer ...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-5772-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5772-1 advisory. It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled bulk transfers from SPICE clients. A remote attacker could use this...

PT-2024-11826 · Linux +4 · Linux Kernel +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a potential skb leak in the greth init rings function. This function does not free the newly allocated skb when dma mapping error returns an error. To fix this,...

AlmaLinux 9 : qemu-kvm (ALSA-2022:7967)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:7967 advisory. - A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 including. It could occur in fdctrltransferhandler in hw/block/fdc.c...

CVE-2022-30283

In UsbCoreDxe, tampering with the contents of the USB working buffer using DMA while certain USB transactions are in process leads to a TOCTOU problem that could be used by an attacker to cause SMRAM corruption and escalation of privileges The UsbCoreDxe module creates a working buffer for USB...

CVE-2022-30283

In UsbCoreDxe, tampering with the contents of the USB working buffer using DMA while certain USB transactions are in process leads to a TOCTOU problem that could be used by an attacker to cause SMRAM corruption and escalation of privileges The UsbCoreDxe module creates a working buffer for USB...

Buffer overflow

In UsbCoreDxe, tampering with the contents of the USB working buffer using DMA while certain USB transactions are in process leads to a TOCTOU problem that could be used by an attacker to cause SMRAM corruption and escalation of privileges The UsbCoreDxe module creates a working buffer for USB...

kernel: RDMA/hfi1: Prevent use of lock before it is initialized

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/hfi1: Prevent use of lock before it is initialized If there is a failure during probe of hfi1 before the sdmamaplock is initialized, the call to hfi1freedevdata will attempt to use a lock that has not been initialized. If th...

kernel: ASoC: SOF: Intel: Fix NULL ptr dereference when ENOMEM

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: Intel: Fix NULL ptr dereference when ENOMEM Do not call snddmafreepages when snddmaallocpages returns -ENOMEM because it leads to a NULL pointer dereference bug. The dmesg says: T1387 sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl...

kernel: dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc() failure

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-buf/dma-resv: Stop leaking on krealloc failure Currently dmaresvgetfences will leak the previously allocated array if the fence iteration got restarted and the kreallocarray fails. Free the old array by hand, and make sure we...

QEMU: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue leads to use-after-free

A DMA reentrancy issue was found in the USB EHCI controller emulation of QEMU. EHCI does not verify if the Buffer Pointer overlaps with its MMIO region when it transfers the USB packets. Crafted content may be written to the controller's registers and trigger undesirable actions such as reset whi...

RLSA-2022:7967 Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm 7.0.0...

CVE-2022-33909

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the HddPassword software SMI handler could cause SMRAM corruption through a TOCTOU attack. DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the HddPassword driver could cause SMRAM corrupti...

CVE-2022-33984

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the SdMmcDevice software SMI handler could cause SMRAM corruption through a TOCTOU attack. DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the SdMmcDevice driver could cause SMRAM corrupti...

CVE-2022-33983

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the NvmExpressLegacy software SMI handler could cause SMRAM corruption through a TOCTOU attack. DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the NvmExpressLegacy driver could cause SMRA...

CVE-2022-33985

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the NvmExpressDxe software SMI handler could cause SMRAM corruption through a TOCTOU attack. DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the NvmExpressDxe driver could cause SMRAM...

CVE-2022-33986

DMA attacks on the parameter buffer used by the VariableRuntimeDxe software SMI handler could lead to a TOCTOU attack. DMA attacks on the parameter buffer used by the software SMI handler used by the driver VariableRuntimeDxe could lead to a TOCTOU attack on the SMI handler and lead to corruption...

CVE-2022-32267

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the SmmResourceCheckDxe software SMI handler cause SMRAM corruption a TOCTOU attack DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the SmmResourceCheckDxe driver could cause SMRAM...

CVE-2022-33905

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the AhciBusDxe software SMI handler could cause SMRAM corruption a TOCTOU attack. DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the AhciBusDxe driver could cause SMRAM corruption through...

CVE-2022-33906

DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the FwBlockServiceSmm software SMI handler could cause SMRAM corruption through a TOCTOU attack. DMA transactions which are targeted at input buffers used for the software SMI handler used by the FwBlockServiceSmm driver could cause...