Malicious Package

Overview node-kexec is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the Linux kernels framebuffer-based console driver functionality in the way a user triggers ioctl FBIOPUTVSCREENINFO with malicious data. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:2803-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

OESA-2022-1825 kexec-tools security update

kexec-tools provides /sbin/kexec binary that facilitates a new kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a normal or a panic reboot. This package contains the /sbin/kexec binary and ancillary utilities that together form the userspace component of the kernel's kexec feature...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:2722-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

GSD-2022-1004690 lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy

lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.208 by commit...

GSD-2022-1004145 lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy

lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.18.15 by commit...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21505

In the linux kernel, if IMA appraisal is used with the "imaappraise=log" boot param, lockdown can be defeated with kexec on any machine when Secure Boot is disabled or unavailable. IMA prevents setting "imaappraise=log" from the boot param when Secure Boot is enabled, but this does not cover case...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.15.0-0.30.20.1 - lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy Eric Snowberg Orabug: 34386636 CVE-2022-21505...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

5.15.0-0.30.20.1 - lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy Eric Snowberg Orabug: 34386636 CVE-2022-21505...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

5.4.17-2136.309.5 - lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy Eric Snowberg Orabug: 34386637 CVE-2022-21505...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.4.17-2136.309.5 - lockdown: Fix kexec lockdown bypass with ima policy Eric Snowberg Orabug: 34386637 CVE-2022-21505...

GSD-2022-1003419 x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15.46 by commit...

GSD-2022-1003162 x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.17.14 by commit...

GSD-2022-1002849 x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer

x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.18.3 by commit...

new packages: kexec-tools

An update is available for kexec-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux...

kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for kexec-tools. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux...

kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section...

ALBA-2022:2053 kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section...

CVE-2021-20269

A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shippe...