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...

SUSE-SU-2020:1713-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-10768: Fixed an issue with the prctl function which could have allowed indirect branch speculation even after it has been disabled bsc1172783. -...

Linux kernel Linux scheduler logic flaw vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the U.S. Linux scheduler is one of the process scheduling applications. A security vulnerability exists in Linux scheduler in Linux kernel. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

CVE-2020-10766

A logic bug flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced when the per...

CVE-2020-10766

A logic bug flaw was found in Linux kernel before 5.8-rc1 in the implementation of SSBD. A bug in the logic handling allows an attacker with a local account to disable SSBD protection during a context switch when additional speculative execution mitigations are in place. This issue was introduced...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20200317)

Security Fixes : - kernel: Count overflow in FUSE request leading to use-after-free issues. CVE-2019-11487 - kernel: rtlp2pnoaie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow CVE-2019-17666 - Kernel: KVM: export...

java-1.8.0-openjdk security update

1:1.8.0.242.b07-1 - Add backports of JDK-8031111 & JDK-8132111 to fix TCK issue. - Resolves: rhbz1785753 1:1.8.0.242.b07-0 - Update to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u242-b07. - Switch to GA mode for final release. - Remove Shenandoah S390 patch which is now included upstream as JDK-8236829. - Resolves:...

Debian DSA-4469-1 : libvirt - security update

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library, allowing an API client with read-only permissions to execute arbitrary commands via the virConnectGetDomainCapabilities API, or read or execute arbitrary files via the virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc API...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0023) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/speculation/mds: Check for the right microcode before setting mitigation Kanth Ghatraju Orabug: 29797118 - vxlan: test dev-flags & IFFUP before accessing vxlan-dev-devaddr Venkat Venkatsubra Orabu...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2019-426) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0007) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/bugs: Fix the AMD SSBD usage of the SPECCTRL MSR Tom Lendacky Orabug: 28870524 CVE-2018-3639 - x86/bugs: Add AMD's SPECCTRL MSR usage Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 28870524 CVE-2018-3639 -...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:1362-2) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed : CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 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 available for...

kernel security update

kernel 2.6.18-419.0.0.0.12 - x86 mm/dumppagetables: Add a checkl1tf debugfs file Chris von Recklinghausen 1593378 CVE-2018-3620 - x86 cpu: Make flushl1d visible in /proc/cpuinfo Chris von Recklinghausen 1593378 - x86 cpufeatures: Add detection of L1D cache flush support. Chris von Recklinghausen...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 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 available for...

Debian DSA-4273-1 : intel-microcode - security update (Spectre)

This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs and provides SSBD support needed to address 'Spectre v4' and fixes for'Spectre v3a'. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4273...

qemu security update

12:2.9.0-11.1.el7 - i386: Define the Virt SSBD MSR and handling of it CVE-2018-3639 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 28110449 CVE-2018-3639 - i386: define the AMD 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bit CVE-2018-3639 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 28110449 CVE-2018-3639 - i386: define the 'ssbd' CPUID feature...

Fedora 27 : 2:qemu (2018-9f02e5ed7b) (Spectre)

Add new CPU features for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2018-3639 On Intel x86 hosts, the 'ssbd' feature must be explicitly added to any virtual machines that are not using host-passthrough/host-model CPU setup. NB this requires new microcode too, which is not yet available in Fedora microcodectl RPMs. On...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-603) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of...

SUSE-SU-2018:1482-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update main focus is a regression fix in SystemV IPC handling. bsc1093600 The following non-security bugs were fixed: - Drop cBPF SSBD as classic BPF does not really have a proper concept of pointer...