kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

4.18.0-147.OL8 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 4.18.0-147 - x86 perf/x86/intel: Fix spurious NMI on fixed counter Michael Petlan...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1518)

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 : - Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support CONFIGKVM, with nested visualizationnVMX feature enablednested=1...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1488)

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 handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.20.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.20.1 - x86 kaiser/efi: unbreak tboot Waiman Long 1519799 1519802 CVE-2017-5754 - x86 pti/mm: Fix trampoline stack problem with XEN PV Waiman Long 1519799 1519802 CVE-2017-5754 - x86 pti/mm: Fix XEN PV boot failure Waiman Long 1519799...

NetScaler SD-WAN 410-SE Stuck in Rescue Mode When Factory Reset Using NMI Button

NetScaler SD-WAN 410-SE stuck in rescue mode when it is factory reset using NMI reset button. User does not see the outputs mentioned in the reset Citrix Documentation. The following is a screenshot of recovery image landing in rescue environment: You will then see the Choose Box ID option:...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K17326)

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI. CVE-2015-5157 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

kernel: x86-64: IRET faults during NMIs processing

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially although highly unlikely, escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.32-573.26.1 - kernel revert 'sched: core: Use hrtimerstartexpires' Jiri Olsa 1326043 1324318 - kernel Revert 'Cleanup bandwidth timers' Jiri Olsa 1326043 1324318 - kernel revert 'fair: Test list head instead of list entry in throttlecfsrq' Jiri Olsa 1326043 1324318 - kernel revert 'sched, per...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0014)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection Andy Lutomirski Orabug: 22742507 CVE-2015-5157 - x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks Andy Lutomirski Orabug: 22742507...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3519)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3519 advisory. - x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection Andy Lutomirski Orabug: 22742507 CVE-2015-5157 - x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.3.2 - x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection Andy Lutomirski Orabug: 22742507 CVE-2015-5157 - x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks Andy Lutomirski Orabug: 22742507 CVE-2015-5157 - x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments Andy Lutomirski...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2016-0185)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0185 advisory. - security keys: Fix keyring ref leak in joinsessionkeyring David Howells 1298931 1298036 CVE-2016-0728 - security keys: Don't permit requestkey to...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:0103)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0103 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues, multiple bugs, and one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2015-686)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-3290: arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel on the x8664 platform improperly relied on espfix64 during nested NMI processing, which allowed local users to gain...

CVE-2015-5157

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

AZL-34324 CVE-2015-5157 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.153.1-1

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI...

CVE-2015-3291

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform does not properly determine when nested NMI processing is occurring, which allows local users to cause a denial of service skipped NMI by modifying the rsp register, issuing a syscall instruction, and triggering an NM...

CVE-2015-3291

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform does not properly determine when nested NMI processing is occurring, which allows local users to cause a denial of service skipped NMI by modifying the rsp register, issuing a syscall instruction, and triggering an NM...