Security update for gcc7 (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for gcc7 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2301-1 Rating: moderate References: 1150164 1161913 1167939 1172798 1178577 1178614 1178624 1178675 Cross-References: CVE-2020-13844 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 An update that solves one vulnerability a...

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 threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

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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...

DEBIAN-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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4485-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4485-1 advisory. Timothy Michaud discovered that the i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate user memory locations for the...

Information disclosure

An information disclosure vulnerability exists on ARM implementations that use speculative execution in control flow via a side-channel analysis, aka "straight-line speculation." To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker with local privileges would need to run a specially crafted application. Th...

Windows ARM Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists on ARM implementations that use speculative execution in control flow via a side-channel analysis, aka "straight-line speculation." To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker with local privileges would need to run a specially crafted application. Th...

PT-2020-3674 · Microsoft · Windows

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows versions prior to the fixed version Description: The issue is related to an information disclosure vulnerability in ARM implementations of Windows, which is connected to the lack of protection for service data. This vulnerability can ...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.4.17-2011.5.3uek - misc: pvpanic: add crash loaded event zhenwei pi Orabug: 31677096 - misc: pvpanic: move bit definition to uapi header file zhenwei pi Orabug: 31677096 - RDMA/netlink: Do not always generate an ACK for some netlink operations Hakon Bugge Orabug: 31666971 - bnxten: Fix statisti...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1153-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-16746: An issue was discovered in net/wireless/nl80211.c where it did not check the length of variable elements in a beacon head, leading to a buffer overflow...

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: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support. 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 availabl...

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...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4439-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4439-1 advisory. 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...

USN-4427-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Kvaser CAN/USB driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2019-19947 Chuhong Yuan discovered that go7007 USB audio device driver in the...

USN-4439-1: 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 btrfs file system...