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 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 ...

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...

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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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: -...

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...

SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2408-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2408-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

[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 ======...

[ASA-202107-48] linux: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202107-48 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2021-07-21 CVE-ID : CVE-2021-3609 CVE-2021-3612 CVE-2021-33909 Package : linux Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2181 Summary ======= The...

SUSE SLED12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2416-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2416-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs...

CVE-2021-3612

An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's joystick devices subsystem in versions before 5.9-rc1, in the way the user calls ioctl JSIOCSBTNMAP. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or possibly escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from th...

CVE-2021-3612

An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's joystick devices subsystem in versions before 5.9-rc1, in the way the user calls ioctl JSIOCSBTNMAP. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or possibly escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from th...