CVE-2020-15565

Root cause: CVE-2020-15565 arises from insufficient cache write-back under VT-d when page tables are shared between IOMMU and CPU, requiring flushing of both CPU and IOMMU TLBs. A backport/backing fixes missed a necessary cache flush, leaving IOMMU updates potentially non-coherent. Affected produ...

CVE-2020-15565

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing x86 Intel HVM guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service or possibly gain privileges because of insufficient cache write-back under VT-d. When page tables are shared between IOMMU and CPU, changes to them require flushing of both...

insufficient cache write-back under VT-d

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When page tables are shared between IOMMU and CPU, changes to them require flushing of both TLBs. Furthermore, IOMMUs may be non-coherent, and hence prior to flushing IOMMU TLBs CPU cached also needs writing back to memory after changes were made. Such writing back of cached dat...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5706)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5706 advisory. - ipv6: only static routes qualify for equal cost multipathing Hannes Frederic Sowa Orabug: 30977687 CVE-2013-4125 - USB: adutux: fix use-after-fre...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5708)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5708 advisory. - Input: ff-memless - kill timer in destroy Oliver Neukum Orabug: 31213691 CVE-2019-19524 - libertas: Fix two buffer overflows at parsing bss...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.46.1 - ipv6: only static routes qualify for equal cost multipathing Hannes Frederic Sowa Orabug: 30977687 CVE-2013-4125 - USB: adutux: fix use-after-free on disconnect Johan Hovold Orabug: 31240296 CVE-2019-19523 - USB: core: Fix races in character device registration and...

LSN-0065-1: Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the way KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine emulated the IOAPIC. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to read host memory or cause a denial of service crash the host. CVE-2013-1798 It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when...

LSN-0065-1 Kernel Live Patch Security Notice

Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the way KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine emulated the IOAPIC. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to read host memory or cause a denial of service crash the host. CVE-2013-1798 It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when...

CVE-2018-12207

A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle inconsistency between, virtual to physical memory address translations in CPU's local cache and system software's Paging structure entries. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to induce a hardware Machine Check Error on the host processor,...

CVE-2018-18281

Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap syscall performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If a syscall such as ftruncate removes entries from the pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap, a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that permits access to a physical pag...

USN-4301-1 linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oracle-5.0, linux-azure vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when paravirtual TLB flushes are enabled in guests, the hypervisor in some situations could miss deferred TLB flushes or otherwise mishandle them. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information read memor...

USN-4300-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when paravirtual TLB flushes are enabled in guests, the hypervisor in some situations could miss deferred TLB flushes or otherwise mishandle them. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information read memor...

USN-4300-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.3, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-raspi2-5.3, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.3 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when paravirtual TLB flushes are enabled in guests, the hypervisor in some situations could miss deferred TLB flushes or otherwise mishandle them. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information read memor...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4301-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Xen Denial of Service vulnerability (XSA-304)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. An erratum exists across some CPUs whereby an instruction fetch may cause a machine check error if the pagetables have been updated in a specific manner...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on upstream 5.4.17 and fixes at least the following security vulnerabilities: In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running lin...

CVE-2019-3016

CVE-2019-3016 is a Linux kernel/KVM issue where, when PV TLB is enabled, a process inside a guest can read memory belonging to another process in the same guest. The root cause is a missing or incomplete TLB flush in the KVM x86 paravirtualized path when the host is running Linux 4.10 and the gue...

CVE-2019-3016

In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running linux kernel 4.10 with a guest running linux kernel 4.16 or later. The problem mainly affects AMD...

CVE-2019-3016

In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This problem is limit to the host running linux kernel 4.10 with a guest running linux kernel 4.16 or later. The problem mainly affects AMD...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5526)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5526 advisory. - x86/KVM: Clean up host's steal time structure Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 30489861 CVE-2019-3016 CVE-2019-3016 - x86/KVM: Make sure KVMVCPUFLUSHTLB flag ...