Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.10.33 and fixes at least the following security issues: A race condition in Linux kernel SCTP sockets net/sctp/socket.c before 5.12-rc8 can lead to kernel privilege escalation from the context of a network service or an unprivileged process. If...

MGASA-2021-0205 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.10.33 and fixes at least the following security issues: A race condition in Linux kernel SCTP sockets net/sctp/socket.c before 5.12-rc8 can lead to kernel privilege escalation from the context of a network service or an unprivileged process. If...

Spectre attacks come back from the dead

Spectre is the name for a whole class of vulnerabilities discovered in January 2018 that affected huge numbers of modern computer processors that rely on a performance feature called speculative execution. Since then, some of the world’s most talented computer scientists from industry and academi...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1627)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.231-173.360. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1627 advisory. A memory leak in the adisupdatescanmode function in drivers/iio/imu/adisbuffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences ...

CVE-2021-29155

CVE-2021-29155 is a Linux kernel issue affecting the eBPF verifier path (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) that allows speculative-out-of-bounds memory accesses to leak kernel memory via side-channels. The description from connected documents ties the vulnerability to Spectre mitigations and notes that a lo...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2020:3424-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:0765-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:0031-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:0861-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:0012-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2015:1511-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1238-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2021-3444: Fixed an issue with the bpf verifier which did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when the source register was known to be 0...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : nss (EulerOS-SA-2021-1717)

According to the versions of the nss packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean Algorithm which entailed...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : nss (EulerOS-SA-2021-1744)

According to the versions of the nss packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean Algorithm which entailed...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1175-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2021-3444: Fixed an issue with the bpf verifier which did not properly handle mod32 destination register truncation when the source register was known t...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2021-9141)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9141 advisory. - bpf, selftests: Fix up some testverifier cases for unprivileged Piotr Krysiuk Orabug: 32656761 CVE-2020-27170 CVE-2020-27171 - bpf: Add sanity...