Dmidecode: Privilege Escalation

Background Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard see a sample output. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other...

kernel: Bluetooth: Avoid potential use-after-free in hci_error_reset

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth subsystem in how it handles hardware failure when it occurs. This flaw allows a local user to potentially crash the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as...

RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:4729)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4729 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

OESA-2024-1875 ffmpeg security update

FFmpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash. Security Fixes: An integer overflow...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6895-3)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6895-3 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

USN-6900-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the HugeTLB file syst...

age Plugins

age is a file encryption tool, library, and format. It lets you encrypt files to “recipients” and decrypt them with “identities”. $ age-keygen -o key.txt Public key: age1ql3z7hjy54pw3hyww5ayyfg7zqgvc7w3j2elw8zmrj2kg5sfn9aqmcac8p $ tar cvz /data | age -r...

SUSE CVE-2024-40970

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Avoid hwdesc array overrun in dw-axi-dmac I have a use case where nrbuffers = 3 and in which each descriptor is composed by 3 segments, resulting in the DMA channel descsallocated to be 9. Since axidescput handles the hwdesc...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6900-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6900-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48824

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: myrs: Fix crash in error case In myrsdetect, cs-disableintr is NULL when privdata-hwinit fails with non-zero. In this case, myrscleanupcs will call a NULL ptr and crash the kernel. 1.105606 myrs 0000:00:03.0: Unknown...

CVE-2022-48795 parisc: Fix data TLB miss in sba_unmap_sg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Fix data TLB miss in sbaunmapsg Rolf Eike Beer reported the following bug: 1274934.746891 Bad Address null pointer deref?: Code=15 Data TLB miss fault at addr 0000004140000018 1274934.746891 CPU: 3 PID: 5549 Comm: cmake N...

CVE-2022-48781

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: afalg - get rid of algmemoryallocated algmemoryallocated does not seem to be really used. algproto does have a .memoryallocated field, but no corresponding .sysctlmem. This means skhasaccount returns true, but all...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6895-2)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6895-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

CGA-MMPH-F248-HW6M

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kernel: Bluetooth: Avoid potential use-after-free in hci_error_reset

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth subsystem in how it handles hardware failure when it occurs. This flaw allows a local user to potentially crash the system...

kernel: Bluetooth: Avoid potential use-after-free in hci_error_reset

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Bluetooth subsystem in how it handles hardware failure when it occurs. This flaw allows a local user to potentially crash the system...

Netscaler High Availability issues

Introduction This article provides a list of Knowledge Base resources on how to investigate, troubleshoot, and prevent the most common issues with Netscaler High Availability HA. Overview of the Issue NetScaler High Availability HA offers seamless failover capabilities to maintain uninterrupted...

Error: "HVM is Required for this Operation" when Trying to Start the VM in XenServer

Example 1 When trying to start the virtual machine VMthe following error is returned: “ There were no servers available to start VM ” The reason is displayed as “ HVM Hardware Virtual Machine is required for this operation ” Example 2 When trying to migrate a Windows VM from one host to another...