ALSA-2023:2757 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 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6080-1)

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-6080-1 advisory. It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6081-1)

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-6081-1 advisory. Jordy Zomer and Alexandra Sandulescu discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly implement speculative execution barriers in usercopy...

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...

qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

7.2.0-14 - Rebuild for 9.2 release - Resolves: bz2173590 bugs in emulation of BMI instructions for libguestfs without KVM - Resolves: bz2156876 virtual networkrhel7.9guest qemu-kvm: vhost vring error in virtqueue 1: Invalid argument 22 7.2.0-13 -...

virt:kvm_utils security update

hivex libguestfs libguestfs-winsupport libiscsi libnbd libvirt 5.7.0-40 - build: change dependency to allow post install erasing of /usr/bin/nc Wim ten Have Orabug: 35289777 - util: Make virFileClose quiet on success Andrea Bolognani Orabug: 35090886 5.7.0-39 - exadata: update maxvcpus for vNUMA...

Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2023-2458)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-2458 advisory. - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function inet6streamops/inet6dgramops of...

Oracle Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2023-2162)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-2162 advisory. - Resolves: bz2149108 CVE-2022-4172 qemu-kvm: QEMU: ACPI ERST: memory corruption issues in readerstrecord and writeerstrecord rhel-9 - Resolves:...

AlmaLinux 9 : qemu-kvm (ALSA-2023:2162)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2162 advisory. - An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages in the extended format. A malicious client could use...

SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-64kb / cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-64kb / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2140-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2140-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Th...

RHEL 9 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2023:2162)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2162 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide th...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. 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 vulnerability from t...

kernel: KVM: Unconditionally get a ref to /dev/kvm module when creating a VM

REJECTED CVE In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Unconditionally get a ref to /dev/kvm module when creating a VM...

ALSA-2023:2162 Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm 7.2.0...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.15.0-101.103.2.1 - Revert 'attr: use consistent sgid stripping checks' Sherry Yang Orabug: 35346968 - Revert 'iommu: Force iommu shutdown on panic' Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 35346963 5.15.0-101.103.2 - uek-rpm: mod-extra: Remove mt7921e.ko from extras list Harshit Mogalapalli Orabug: 34999685 -...

PT-2025-26153 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved, related to the initialization of Xen timers in the KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine module. The issue occurred when the kvm xen...

ALSA-2023:2165 Important: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

EDK Embedded Development Kit is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM. Security Fixes: openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName CVE-2023-0286 edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function...

Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm 7.2.0...

Important: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

EDK Embedded Development Kit is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM. Security Fixes: openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName CVE-2023-0286 edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function...

EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1759)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In TBD of TBD, there is a possible way to corrupt kernel memory due to a use after free. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with n...