CVE-2020-10768: Expected Behavior Violation

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threa...

Important: kernel-livepatch-4.14.181-142.260

Issue Overview: An issue has been reported in the Linux kernel's handling of raw sockets. This issue can be used locally to cause denial of service or local privilege escalation from unprivileged processes or from containers with the CAPNETRAW capability enabled. See Also:...

USN-4485-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Timothy Michaud discovered that the i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate user memory locations for the i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-20669 It was discovered that the...

USN-4483-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities

Chuhong Yuan discovered that go7007 USB audio device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in some failure conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2019-20810 Fan Yang discovered that the mremap...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

USN-4440-1: linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network block device nbd implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for error conditions in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-16089 It was discovered that the kernel-user space relay...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

SUSE-SU-2020:2027-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-15780: A lockdown bypass for loading unsigned modules using ACPI table injection was fixed. bsc1173573 - CVE-2020-15393: Fixed a memory leak in...

Information Disclosure

kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. The prctl function can be used to enable indirect branch speculation even after it has been disabled. This same call will incorrectly report it being 'force disabled' when it is not...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

kernel: Indirect branch speculation can be enabled after it was force-disabled by the PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE prctl command.

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue where a provided address with accessok is not checked was discovered in i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gemexecbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory...

Linux kernel prctl Unauthorized Access

The vulnerability of the prctl function in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to insufficient input validation and improper implementation of the functions. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information...

CVE-2020-10768

A flaw was found in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to...

CVE-2020-10768

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threa...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10768

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the prctl function, where it can be used to enable indirect branch speculation after it has been disabled. This call incorrectly reports it as being 'force disabled' when it is not and opens the system to Spectre v2 attacks. The highest threa...

PT-2020-1254

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux Kernel versions prior to 5.8-rc1 Description A flaw in the prctl function allows indirect branch speculation to be enabled after it has been disabled, incorrectly reporting it as 'force disabled' when it is not. This opens the system to...

PT-2023-1383

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.9.176 Description The current implementation of the prctl syscall does not issue an IBPB immediately during the syscall. The ib prctl set function updates the Thread Information Flags TIFs for the task and...