USN-4183-2: Linux kernel vulnerability

USN-4183-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. It was discovered that the kernel fix for CVE-2019-0155 i915 missing Blitter Command Streamer check was incomplete on 64-bit Intel x86 systems. This update addresses the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details:...

USN-4184-2: Linux kernel vulnerability and regression

USN-4184-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. It was discovered that the kernel fix for CVE-2019-0155 i915 missing Blitter Command Streamer check was incomplete on 64-bit Intel x86 systems. Also, the update introduced a regression that broke KVM guests where extended page tables EPT are...

USN-4188-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

USN-4185-2: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

USN-4187-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

USN-4186-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities

USN-4186-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi,...

USN-4183-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

Ubuntu 19.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4183-1)

Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Osterlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions TSX could expose...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4186-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4186-1 advisory. Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian sterlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp,...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4184-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4184-1 advisory. Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian sterlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4186-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4185-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4185-1 advisory. Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian sterlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Mori...

Important: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support. The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel x86 processors. This update adds the following enhancement: Update Intel microcode version to microcode-20191112 BZ1758570 Users of...

Important: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support. The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel x86 processors. This update adds the following enhancement: Update Intel microcode version to microcode-20191112 BZ1769886 Users of...

hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle speculative execution of instructions when the TSX Asynchronous Abort TAA error occurs. A local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution times could infer the TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times. This could allow...

hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle speculative execution of instructions when the TSX Asynchronous Abort TAA error occurs. A local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution times could infer the TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times. This could allow...

hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle speculative execution of instructions when the TSX Asynchronous Abort TAA error occurs. A local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution times could infer the TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times. This could allow...

hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle inconsistency between, virtual to physical memory address translations in CPU's local cache and system software's Paging structure entries. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to induce a hardware Machine Check Error on the host processor,...

hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle speculative execution of instructions when the TSX Asynchronous Abort TAA error occurs. A local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution times could infer the TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times. This could allow...

hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU)

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle inconsistency between, virtual to physical memory address translations in CPU's local cache and system software's Paging structure entries. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to induce a hardware Machine Check Error on the host processor,...