GSD-2021-1000310 KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs

KVM: VMX: Disable preemption when probing user return MSRs 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 v5.10.38 by commit...

UVI-2021-1000394 KVM: Stop looking for coalesced MMIO zones if the bus is destroyed

KVM: Stop looking for coalesced MMIO zones if the bus is destroyed 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 v5.10.37 by commit...

CVE-2021-22543

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM implementation, where improper handing of the VMIO|VMPFNMAP VMAs in KVM bypasses RO checks and leads to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This flaw allows users who can start and control a VM to read/write random pages of...

CVE-2021-22543

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

CVE-2021-22543

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

Privilege escalation

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

CVE-2021-22543 Improper memory handling in Linux KVM

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

CVE-2021-22543

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

CVE-2021-22543

CVE-2021-22543 is described in connected advisories as a local privilege-escalation through KVM and improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP VMAs, which can bypass RO checks and allow reading/writing guest memory by a privileged VM operator. Technical details across sources indicate the vulnerability...

CVE-2021-22543

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

libvirt 6.0.0-35.0.1 - Set SOURCEDATEEPOCH from changelog Orabug: 32019554 - Add runtime deps for pkg librbd1 = 1:10.2.5 Keshav Sharma - Disable parallel builds Karl Heubaum libvirt-dbus 1.3.0 - Resolves: bz1810193 Upgrade components in virt:rhel module:stream for RHEL-8.3 release libvirt-python...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

linux-oracle:focal is vulnerable to denial of service. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvmmain.c has a kvmiobusunregisterdev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

CVE-2021-22543

An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VMIO|VMPFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to read/write random pages of memory and ca...

RLSA-2021:1762 Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:Rocky Linux module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting wi...

ALSA-2021:1762 Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for libguestfs, libnbd, nbdkit, libguestfs-winsupport, supermin, libiscsi, hivex, libvirt, netcf, perl-Sys-Virt, seabios, qemu-kvm, sgabios, libvirt-dbus, libvirt-python. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

Ubuntu 21.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4950-1)

The remote Ubuntu 21.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4950-1 advisory. Ryota Shiga discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify that a BPF program only reserved as much memory for a ring...

USN-4946-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the DRM subsystem in the Linux kernel contained double-free vulnerabilities. A privileged attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-20292 Olivier Benjamin, Norbert Manthey, Martin Mazein, and Jan ...