Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003430)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003430 advisory. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-000331)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-000331 advisory. An infinite loop issue was found in the vhostnet kernel module in Linux Kernel up to and including v5.1-rc6, while handling incoming packets in handlerx. It could...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-000302)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-000302 advisory. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds...

K03593314: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2018-16880

Security Advisory Description A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5845)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5845 advisory. - sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices Dave Chiluk Orabug: 31350999 CVE-2019-19922 - sched/fai...

Kernel: vhost_net: infinite loop while receiving packets leads to DoS

An infinite loop issue was found in the vhostnet kernel module while handling incoming packets in handlerx. The infinite loop could occur if one end sends packets faster than the other end can process them. A guest user, maybe a remote one, could use this flaw to stall the vhostnet kernel thread,...

Kernel: vhost_net: infinite loop while receiving packets leads to DoS

An infinite loop issue was found in the vhostnet kernel module while handling incoming packets in handlerx. The infinite loop could occur if one end sends packets faster than the other end can process them. A guest user, maybe a remote one, could use this flaw to stall the vhostnet kernel thread,...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1232)

An infinite loop issue was found in the vhostnet kernel module while handling incoming packets in handlerx. The infinite loop could occur if one end sends packets faster than the other end can process them. A guest user, maybe a remote one, could use this flaw to stall the vhostnet kernel thread,...

CVE-2019-3900

CVE-2019-3900 is an upstream Linux kernel vulnerability in the vhost_net module causing an infinite loop while handling incoming packets in handle_rx(), which can allow a guest user to stall the vhost_net kernel thread and trigger a DoS. The issue is present in Linux kernel releases up to and inc...

CVE-2019-3900

An infinite loop issue was found in the vhostnet kernel module in Linux Kernel up to and including v5.1-rc6, while handling incoming packets in handlerx. It could occur if one end sends packets faster than the other end can process them. A guest user, maybe remote one, could use this flaw to stal...

Linux kernel buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2019-03585)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. The vhostnet driver is one of the virtual machine network communication components. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'handlerx' function of the vhostn...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the...

CVE-2018-16880

CVE-2018-16880 affects the Linux kernel’s handle_rx() in the vhost_net driver. Under specific conditions a malicious guest can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on the host, potentially causing kernel memory corruption and a system panic; privilege escalation cannot be ruled out....

CVE-2018-16880

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0634)

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2014:0475-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2014:0475-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20140507)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP packets used the skbheaderpointer function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DCCP packet to crash the system or, potentially,...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2014:0475)

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severit...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severit...