SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-10135: Legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing authentication Bluetooth might have allowed an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1984)

"According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: avoid double free in tunfreenetdev Avoid double free in...

USN-6896-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-3)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-3 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

Oracle Linux 8 : virt:ol / and / virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2024-4420)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-4420 advisory. hivex libguestfs libguestfs-winsupport libiscsi libnbd libtpms libvirt libvirt-dbus libvirt-python nbdkit netcf perl-Sys-Virt qemu-kvm 6.2.0-50 -...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6898-2 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

Oracle Linux 8 : virt:kvm_utils3 (ELSA-2024-12536)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12536 advisory. - Fix off-by-one error in udevListInterfacesByStatus Martin Kletzander Orabug: 36364464 CVE-2024-1441 libvirt-dbus libvirt-python nbdkit netcf...

CVE-2022-48793

A vulnerability was found in the nested.c file in the Linux kernel's KVM driver, where a potential NULL dereference can occur. This happens when the call to load the nested state is executed before Nested Page Tables NPT are enabled, preventing access to guest memory, lead to system instability a...

CVE-2024-40989

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's KVM for ARM64 within the vgic-init.c, vgic-mmio-v3.c, and vgic.h files. The virtual vCPUs may retain dangling pointers in a redistributor region after they have been torn down, leading to potential memory corruption. Mitigation Mitigation for this...

CVE-2024-40953

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Fix a data race on lastboostedvcpu in kvmvcpuonspin Use READ,WRITEONCE to access kvm-lastboostedvcpu to ensure the loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the compiler tears the stores, it's...

CVE-2022-48793

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very...

CVE-2022-48793

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very...

USN-6896-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

CVE-2022-48793

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very...

CVE-2022-48793 KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very...

CVE-2022-48793 KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very...

CVE-2022-48793 KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nestedsvmloadcr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very...

CVE-2022-48793

CVE-2022-48793 affects the Linux kernel KVM/x86 nested migration path. The root cause is a NULL dereference caused by calling nested_svm_load_cr3 before Nested Page Tables (NPT) are enabled, preventing guest memory access and breaking mmu walk initialization. Red Hat and vendor advisories (RHSA-2...

SUSE CVE-2024-40989

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown When tearing down a redistributor region, make sure we don't have any dangling pointer to that region stored in a vcpu...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...