Improper Access Control

Linux kernel is vulnerable to improper access control. The vulnerability exists because the mm subsystem in the Linux kernel does not properly enforce the CONFIGSTRICTDEVMEM protection mechanism. Local users could read or write to kernel memory locations in the first megabyte and bypass...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0017) (Meltdown)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set Ethan Zhao Orabug: 27234850 Orabug: 27234850 - hugetlb: fix nrpmds accounting with shared page tables Kirill A. Shutemov Orabu...