Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-8897

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or...

K17403481: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2018-8897

Security Advisory Description A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV ...

Microsoft Windows POP/MOV SS Local Privilege Elevation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/post/common' require 'msf/core/post/file' require 'msf/core/post/windows/priv' require 'msf/core/post/windows/registry' require 'msf/core/exploit/exe'...

Detecting Kernel Memory Disclosure – Whitepaper

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Project Zero Since early 2017, we have been working on Bochspwn Reloaded – a piece of dynamic binary instrumentation built on top of the Bochs IA-32 software emulator, designed to identify memory disclosure vulnerabilities in operating system kernels. Over the course of...

CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When a benign exception occurs while delivering another benign exception, it is architecturally specified that these would be delivered sequentially. There are, however, cases where this results in an infinite loop inside the CPU, which in the virtualized case can be broken only...