PT-2021-4229 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions 5.9.x through 5.11.3 Description: The issue relates to misuse of guest physical addresses when a configuration has CONFIG XEN UNPOPULATED ALLOC but not CONFIG XEN BALLOON MEMORY HOTPLUG, allowing an x86 PV guest OS user ...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/ttyjobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free CVE-2020-29661 kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free CVE-2020-14351 kernel: ICMP rate limiting...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2020:3037-1)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-15708: Added a note to libvirtd.conf about polkit auth in SUSE distros bsc1174955. CVE-2020-25637: Fixed a double free in qemuAgentGetInterfaces bsc1177155. qemu: Adjust max memlock on mdev hotplug bsc1177480. Xen: Don't add dom0 twice...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2020:3039-1)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-15708: Added a note to libvirtd.conf about polkit auth in SUSE distros bsc1174955. CVE-2020-25637: Fixed a double free in qemuAgentGetInterfaces bsc1177155. qemu: Adjust max memlock on mdev hotplug bsc1177480. Xen: Don't add dom0 twice...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.4.17-2036.100.6.1.el8uek - powercap: restrict energy meter to root access Kanth Ghatraju Orabug: 32040802 CVE-2020-8694 CVE-2020-8695 - KVM: ioapic: break infinite recursion on lazy EOI Vitaly Kuznetsov Orabug: 32066585 CVE-2020-27152 CVE-2020-27152 - x86/mitigations: Restore paranoid checks fo...

kernel: race condition caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, where there is a race condition bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer. An attacker who can hotplug at least two devices of this class can cause a use-after-free situation...

openSUSE Security Update : libvirt (openSUSE-2020-1778)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-15708: Added a note to libvirtd.conf about polkit auth in SUSE distros bsc1174955. - CVE-2020-25637: Fixed a double free in qemuAgentGetInterfaces bsc1177155. - qemu: Adjust max memlock on mdev hotplug bsc1177480. - Xen: Don't add do...

Security update for libvirt (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for libvirt Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1778-1 Rating: important References: 1174955 1175465 1175574 1176430 1177155 1177480 Cross-References: CVE-2020-15708 CVE-2020-25637 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that solves two...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

cloud-init security, bug fix, and enhancement update

19.4-7.0.3 - Add conditional restart of NetworkManager for cloud-final. Orabug: 31965645 - Correct postinstall upgrade cloud-init.service mismerge order. 19.4-7.0.1 - Add Oracle Linux variant to known distros - Add cloud-init hotplug event handling support Orabug: 30485135 - Oracle data source...

kernel: race condition caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, where there is a race condition bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer. An attacker who can hotplug at least two devices of this class can cause a use-after-free situation...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2020:2233-1)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-14339: Don't leak /dev/mapper/control into QEMU. Use ioctl's to obtain the dependency tree of disks and drop use of libdevmapper. - bsc1161883, bsc1174458 qemu: Setup emulator thread and cpuset.mems before exec - bsc1171946 libxl:...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.14.35-1902.304.6 - bpf: fix sanitation rewrite in case of non-pointers Daniel Borkmann Orabug: 31552243 4.14.35-1902.304.5 - acpi: disallow loading configfs acpi tables when locked down Jason A. Donenfeld Orabug: 31493187 - selftests/bpf: do not run testkmod.sh for UEK5 Alan Maguire Orabug:...

kernel: Two memory leaks in the mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c allows for a DoS

Two memory leak flaws were found in the Linux kernel's mwifiexpcieinitevtring function. A local attacker, able to reload the kernel module or hotplug Marvell WiFi hardware using this driver, can cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering mwifiexmappcimemory failures...

CVE-2019-19447

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4unlink function. An attacker could corrupt memory or escalate privileges when deleting a file from a recently unmounted specially crafted ext4 filesystem, including local, USB, and iSCSI. Mitigation Ext4 filesytems are built into the kernel so it is not...

Linux kernel memory leak vulnerability (CNVD-2019-41265)

The Linux kernel is a computer operating system kernel written in C and assembly language, compliant with the POSIX standard, and distributed under the GNU General Public License. A memory leak vulnerability exists in the acphwinit function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpuacp.c in versions of...

systemd security, bug fix, and enhancement update

239-18.0.1 - fix netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab [email protected] Orabug: 25897792 - set 'RemoveIPC=no' in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 Orabug: 22224874 - allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 Vaughan Cao Orabug: 18467469 - add hv dynamic memory support Jerry...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

PT-2019-4206 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.3.8 Description: The issue is related to four memory leaks in the acp hw init function in the Linux kernel, which can cause a denial of service due to memory consumption. This can be triggered by failures in m...