Golang Cryptomining Worm Offers 15% Speed Boost

A freshly discovered variant of the Golang crypto-worm was recently spotted dropping Monero-mining malware on victim machines; in a switch-up of tactics, the payload binaries are capable of speeding up the mining process by 15 percent, researchers said. According to research from Uptycs, the worm...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-28690

x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 This issue relates to the TSX Async Abort speculative security vulnerability. Please see https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html for details. Mitigating TAA by disabling TSX the default and preferred option requires selecting a...

CVE-2021-28690

x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 This issue relates to the TSX Async Abort speculative security vulnerability. Please see https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html for details. Mitigating TAA by disabling TSX the default and preferred option requires selecting a...

PT-2021-4275

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 5.11.12 Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c component of the Linux kernel, specifically affecting AMD KVM guests. This vulnerability can be exploite...

CVE-2020-28921

An issue was discovered in Devid Espenschied PC Analyser through 4.10. The PCADRVX64.SYS kernel driver exposes IOCTL functionality that allows low-privilege users to read and write to arbitrary Model Specific Registers MSRs. This could lead to arbitrary Ring-0 code execution and escalation of...

Unspecified Vulnerability in AMD ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys/Overclocking Utility

AMD ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys/Overclocking Utility is a hardware diagnostics and overclocking utility from AMD. A security vulnerability in the atillk64.sys file in AMD ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys/Overclocking Utility version 5.11.9.0, which originates from not properl...

CVE-2019-7247

An issue was discovered in AODDriver2.sys in AMD OverDrive. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x81112ee0 and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register MSR. Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges...

Privilege escalation

An issue was discovered in AODDriver2.sys in AMD OverDrive. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x81112ee0 and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register MSR. Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges...

CVE-2019-7245

An issue was discovered in GPU-Z.sys in TechPowerUp GPU-Z before 2.23.0. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via an IOCTL and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register MSR. Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges...

Privilege escalation

An issue was discovered in kerneld.sys in AIDA64 before 5.99. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x80112084 and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register MSR. Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges...

CVE-2019-7245

An issue was discovered in GPU-Z.sys in TechPowerUp GPU-Z before 2.23.0. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via an IOCTL and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register MSR. Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges...

CVE-2019-7245

Summary: TechPowerUp GPU-Z’s GPU-Z.sys driver prior to 2.23.0 exposes a wrmsr instruction via an IOCTL, with improper MSR filtering. This allows arbitrary MSR writes and can lead to Ring-0 code execution and privilege escalation. Impact: high (privilege escalation, potential full control). Affect...

CVE-2019-7244

An issue was discovered in kerneld.sys in AIDA64 before 5.99. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x80112084 and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register MSR. Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges. Recent...

PT-2020-11248 · Gigabyte · Gigabyte App Center

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Gigabyte APP Center version 19.0227.1 and earlier Description: An issue was discovered in the gdrv.sys driver. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0xC3502580 and does not properly filter the target Model Specific...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1486)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that the parserockridgeinodeinternal function of the Linux kernel's ISOFS implementation did not correctl...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1480)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled the requeuing of certain Priority Inheritance PI futexes. ...

CVE-2018-16711

IObit Advanced SystemCare, which includes Monitorwin10x64.sys or Monitorwin7x64.sys, 1.2.0.5 and possibly earlier versions allows a user to send an IOCTL 0x9C402088 with a buffer containing user defined content. The driver's subroutine will execute a wrmsr instruction with the user's buffer for...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3713

The msrmtrrvalid function in arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 supports MSR 0x2f8, which allows guest OS users to read or write to the kvmarchvcpu data structure, and consequently obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service system crash, via a crafted ioctl call...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1277)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability from th...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3713

The msrmtrrvalid function in arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 supports MSR 0x2f8, which allows guest OS users to read or write to the kvmarchvcpu data structure, and consequently obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service system crash, via a crafted ioctl call...