virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

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

RLSA-2021:1064 Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security 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...

Buffer Overflows

linux-kvm is vulnerable to buffer overflows. An out-of-bounds OOB memory access flaw was found in x25bind in net/x25/afx25.c in the Linux kernel. A bounds check failure allows a local attacker with a user account on the system to gain access to out-of-bounds memory leading to a system crash or a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29657

arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 5.11.12 has a use-after-free in which an AMD KVM guest can bypass access control on host OS MSRs when there are nested guests, aka CID-a58d9166a756. This occurs because of a TOCTOU race condition associated with a VMCB12 double fetch in...

CVE-2021-29657

arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 5.11.12 has a use-after-free in which an AMD KVM guest can bypass access control on host OS MSRs when there are nested guests, aka CID-a58d9166a756. This occurs because of a TOCTOU race condition associated with a VMCB12 double fetch in...

USN-4890-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly compute a speculative execution limit on pointer arithmetic in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-27171 Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4890-1)

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-4887-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

De4dCr0w of 360 Alpha Lab discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when the source register was known to be 0. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4752-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4752-1 advisory. Daniele Antonioli, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, and Kasper Rasmussen discovered that legacy pairing and secure- connections pairing authentication in the...

Medium: qemu-kvm

Issue Overview: An out-of-bound write access flaw was found in the way QEMU loads ROM contents at boot time. This flaw occurs in the romcopy routine while loading the contents of a 32-bit -kernel image into memory. Running an untrusted -kernel image may load contents at arbitrary memory locations...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4883-1)

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2021-1488)

The version of qemu-kvm installed on the remote host is prior to 1.5.3-156.26. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2021-1488 advisory. An out-of-bound write access flaw was found in the way QEMU loads ROM contents at boot time. This flaw occurs in the...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Queens. 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 available for each...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2021:0934)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0934 advisory. KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provi...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4878-1)

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...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.4.17-2036.104.4.el8uek - KVM: arm64: guest context in x18 instead of x29 Mihai Carabas Orabug: 32545182 5.4.17-2036.104.3.el8uek - config: enable CONFIGMLX5MPFS Brian Maly Orabug: 32249042 - net: Fix bridge enslavement failure Ido Schimmel Orabug: 32503298 - inet: do not call sublistrcv on empt...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.06 : qemu-kvm Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0004)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.06, has qemu-kvm packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - libslirp 4.0.0, as used in QEMU 4.1.0, has a use-after-free in ipreass in ipinput.c. CVE-2019-15890 - ipreass in ipinput.c in libslirp 4.0.0 has a heap-based...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

SUSE-RU-2021:14663-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following non-security bug was fixed: - Fixed a regression where KVM VM hangs caused by the fix CVE-2020-29660 and CVE-2020-29661 bsc1182505...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

5.4.17-2036.104.4.el7 - KVM: arm64: guest context in x18 instead of x29 Mihai Carabas Orabug: 32545182 5.4.17-2036.104.3.el7 - config: enable CONFIGMLX5MPFS Brian Maly Orabug: 32249042 - net: Fix bridge enslavement failure Ido Schimmel Orabug: 32503298 - inet: do not call sublistrcv on empty list...