Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities (USN-5071-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5071-3 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations,...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-5073-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-2 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

USN-5073-2: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5073-2 linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15 vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5071-2 linux-hwe-5.4 vulnerabilities

USN-5071-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux is vulnerable to denial of service. The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's joystick devices subsystem...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5073-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

USN-5073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5073-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5070-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5070-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5073-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

USN-5071-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5070-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5070-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.11, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.11, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2687-1 Rating: important References: 1065729 1085224 1094840 1113295 1152472 1152489 1153274 1154353 1155518 1156395 1170511 1176447 1176940 1179243 1180092 1180814 1183871 1184114 1184350 1184631...

SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2645-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2645-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for the (openSUSE-SU-2021:2645-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2645-1 Rating: important References: 1065729 1085224 1094840 1113295 1152472 1152489 1153274 1154353 1155518 1156395 1170511 1176447 1176940 1179243 1180092 1180814 1183871 1184114 1184350 1184631...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2021:1076-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1076-1 advisory. - A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since v2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/xtables.c. This allows an attacker to gain...

[ASA-202107-50] linux-hardened: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202107-50 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2021-07-21 CVE-ID : CVE-2021-3609 CVE-2021-3612 CVE-2021-33909 Package : linux-hardened Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2183 Summary ======...