Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities (USN-6207-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6207-1 advisory. It was discovered that the TUN/TAP driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize socket data. A local attacker could use this to cau...

SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2156-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2156-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

CVE-2023-1998

The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with PRSETSPECULATIONCTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel still left the victim process exposed to...

CVE-2023-1998 Spectre v2 SMT mitigations problem in Linux kernel

The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with PRSETSPECULATIONCTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel still left the victim process exposed to...

CVE-2023-1998

The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with PRSETSPECULATIONCTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel still left the victim process exposed to...