AlmaLinux 8 : kernel update (Medium) (ALSA-2024:3618)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:3618 advisory. kernel: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation CVE-2023-6240 kernel: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhostnewms...

Moderate: kernel update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation CVE-2023-6240 kernel: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhostnewmsg CVE-2024-0340 kernel: untrusted VMM can...

SUSE CVE-2024-36926

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

RHEL 6 : powerpc-utils (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - powerpc-utils: snap creates archives with fstab and yaboot.conf which may expose certain passwords CVE-2014-4040 No...

RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - kernel: powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtablecacheadd CVE-2023-52607 - In the Linux kernel,...

CVE-2024-36926

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

AZL-42450 CVE-2024-36926 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.35.1-4

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36926

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36926

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

CVE-2024-36926 powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

CVE-2024-36926

CVE-2024-36926 affects the Linux kernel on PowerPC pseries hardware, where LPARs boot with a frozen PE may lack the ibm,dma-window property. This can cause a NULL pointer dereference while configuring PCI, leading to an oops/panic during boot. The vulnerability is described with kernel traces (pc...

CVE-2024-36926 powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

CVE-2024-36926 powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: LPAR panics during boot up with a frozen PE At the time of LPAR boot up, partition firmware provides Open Firmware property ibm,dma-window for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus the PE is...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from a problem in the powerpc/pseries/iommu module that could cause a crash...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities (USN-6795-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6795-1 advisory. Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use-...

SUSE CVE-2023-52740

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix interrupt exit race with security mitigation switch The RFI and STF security mitigation options can flip the interruptexitnotreentrant static branch condition concurrently with the interrupt exit code...

SUSE CVE-2021-47429

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64s: Fix unrecoverable MCE calling async handler from NMI The machine check handler is not considered NMI on 64s. The early handler is the true NMI handler, and then it schedules the machinecheckexception handler to run...

SUSE CVE-2021-47465

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack handling in idlekvmstartguest In commit 10d91611f426 "powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C" kvmstartguest became idlekvmstartguest. The old code allocated a stack frame on the emergency...

SUSE CVE-2021-47567

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/32: Fix hardlockup on vmap stack overflow Since the commit c118c7303ad5 "powerpc/32: Fix vmap stack - Do not activate MMU before reading task struct" a vmap stack overflow results in a hard lockup. This is because...

The vulnerability of the `ptrace_get_fpr()` function in the `arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-fpu.c` module of the Linux kernel’s ptrace component on the 32-bit powerpc platform allows a attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information, or to enhance their privileges.

The vulnerability of the ptracegetfpr function in the arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-fpu.c module of the Linux kernel’s ptrace component on the 32-bit powerpc platform is related to access to memory beyond the allocated buffer. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to compromise the...