SUSE-SU-2022:4278-1 Security update for supportutils

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - Passwords correctly removed from email.txt, updates.txt and fs-iscsi.txt bsc1203818 Bug fixes: - Added lifecycle information - Fixed KVM virtualization detection on bare metal bsc1184689 - Added logging using...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available f...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availabl...

Slackware Linux 15.0 kernel-generic Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-333-01)

The version of kernel-generic installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.80 / 5.15.80smp. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-333-01 advisory. New kernel packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Tenable has extracted the...

RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:8686)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8686 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Security Fixe...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:8685)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8685 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: KVM: cmpxchggpte can write to pfns outside the...

CVE-2020-35505 affecting package qemu-kvm 4.2.0-45

CVE-2020-35505 affecting package qemu-kvm 4.2.0-45. A patched version of the package is available...

qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

7.0.0-13 - kvm-i386-reset-KVM-nested-state-upon-CPU-reset.patch bz2117546 - kvm-i386-do-kvmputmsrfeaturecontrol-first-thing-when.patch bz2117546 - Resolves: bz2117546 RHEL9.1 Guests in VMX root operation fail to reboot with QEMUs systemreset command 7.0.0-12 -...

Oracle Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2022-7967)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-7967 advisory. - Resolves: bz1951522 CVE-2021-3507 qemu-kvm: QEMU: fdc: heap buffer overflow in DMA read data transfers rhel-9.0 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux kernel’s KVM is vulnerable to denial of service. The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference which allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service...

Use After Free

linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-dell300x is vulnerable to free of use. The vulnerability exists in drivers/scsi/stex.c because it allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stexqueuecommandlck lacks a memset...

SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-64kb / cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-64kb / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:4072-1)

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-2022:4072-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Th...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5728-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5728-2 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading t...

AlmaLinux 9 : qemu-kvm (ALSA-2022:7967)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:7967 advisory. - A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 including. It could occur in fdctrltransferhandler in hw/block/fdc.c...

USN-5728-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-427...

USN-5727-2 linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-20422 It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handl...

AlmaLinux 9 : kernel (ALSA-2022:8267)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:8267 advisory. - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16.11. The mixed IPID assignment method with the hash-based IPID assignment policy allows an...

USN-5729-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-20422 Hsin-Wei Hung discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an...

USN-5728-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-427...