kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

4.18.0-240.15.13.OL8 - Oracle Linux certificates Kevin Lyons - Disable signing for aarch64 Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x6...

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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...

ALSA-2021:0558 Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/ttyjobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free CVE-2020-29661 kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free CVE-2020-14351 kernel: ICMP rate limiting...

Automating and operationalizing data protection with Dataguise and Microsoft Information Protection

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In technical literature, the terms data discovery, classification, and tagging are sometimes used interchangeably, but there are real differences in what they actually mean—and each...

Hotfix XS82E016 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Who Should Install This Hotfix? This is a hotfix for customers running Citrix Hypervisor 8.2. All customers who are affected by the issues described inCTX291439 - Citrix Hypervisor Multiple Security Updatesshould install this hotfix. Information About this Hotfix Component| Details ---|---...

Citrix Hypervisor Security Update

Description of Problem A security issue has been identified that may allow privileged code running in a guest VM to which a PCI passthrough device has been allocated to cause other VMs with PCI passthrough devices to fail to boot, crash or become unresponsive. This only applies to guest VMs where...

Fedora 32 : xen (2021-16c9c40d4d)

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-16c9c40d4d advisory. - An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

CVE-2021-3308

CVE-2021-3308 affects the Xen hypervisor (notably Xen 4.12.3–4.12.4 and 4.13.1–4.14.x). An x86 HVM guest with PCI passthrough can reboot with MSI/MSI-X enabled to exhaust all IDT vectors, leaking MSI(-X) entries and causing a DoS for PCI devices across guests or the host. The issue is triggered b...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

IRQ vector leak on x86

ISSUE DESCRIPTION An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors used by the MSI-X entries that the guest might had enabled, a...

Xen IRQ Infinite Loop DoS (XSA-356)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to an issue when handling IRQ vectors. When moving IRQs between CPUs to distribute the load of IRQ handling, IRQ vectors are dynamically allocated an...