Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5116-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5116-2 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Atheros Ath9k WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use this to...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5116-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5116-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Atheros Ath9k WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use this to...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3415-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3415-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-3702: Fixed a bug which could be...

SUSE SLED15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3207-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3207-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: ...

SUSE SLES12: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-base / kernel-azure-devel / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:3192-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3192-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs wer...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1704)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.246-187.474. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1704 advisory. A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing t...

PT-2021-7350 · Linux +8 · Linux Kernel +8

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a flaw in the Linux kernel's OverlayFS subsystem, specifically in how the user mounts the TmpFS filesystem with OverlayFS. This flaw allows a local user to gain...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K83102920)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to 16.1.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K83102920 advisory. The userfaultfd implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.19.7 mishandles access control for certain UFFDIO ioctl calls, as...

Microsoft Azure Sphere mount namespace unsigned code execution vulnerability

Summary An unsigned code execution vulnerability exists in the mount namespace functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 21.01. A specially crafted shellcode could allow an adversary to execute an arbitrary binary in a tmpfs mount, leading to unsigned code execution. An attacker can switch to a new...

CVE-2020-25578

In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 several file systems were not properly initializing the doff field of the dirent structures returned by VOPREADDIR. In particular, tmpfs5, smbfs5, autofs5...

CVE-2020-25578

CVE-2020-25578 affects FreeBSD: several file systems (tmpfs(5), smbfs(5), autofs(5), mqueuefs(5)) did not properly initialize the d_off field in dirent structures returned by VOP_READDIR. The underlying issue can leak eight uninitialized kernel stack bytes to userspace. The FreeBSD advisory (Free...

USN-4369-2 linux, linux-raspi2, linux-raspi2-5.3 regression

USN-4369-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the 5.3 Linux kernel. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression in overlayfs. This update corrects the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-4369-2: Linux kernel regression

USN-4369-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the 5.3 Linux kernel. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression in overlayfs. This update corrects the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-4363-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Serial CAN interface driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize data. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-11494 It was discovered that the linux kernel did not properly validate certain mount options to the...

USN-4367-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-riscv vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly detect that a block was marked dirty in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image that, when unmounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-19377 It was...

USN-4367-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly detect that a block was marked dirty in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image that, when unmounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-19377 It was...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4367-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4367-1 advisory. It was discovered that the btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly detect that a block was marked dirty in some situations. An attacker...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4367-1)

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...

USN-4364-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ADIS16400 IIO IMU Driver for the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2019-19060 It was discovered that the vhost net driver in the Linux kernel...

USN-4364-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ADIS16400 IIO IMU Driver for the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2019-19060 It was discovered that the vhost net driver in the Linux kernel...