The vulnerability in the driver drivers/char/virtio_console.c of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause stack overflow.

The vulnerability in the driver drivers/char/virtioconsole.c of the Linux operating system is caused by a buffer overflow in the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause damage to the stack...

USN-5091-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel missed possible mispredicted branches due to type confusion, allowing a side-channel attack. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-33624 It was...

USN-5091-2 linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities

Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel missed possible mispredicted branches due to type confusion, allowing a side-channel attack. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-33624 It was...

USN-5096-1 linux-oem-5.13 vulnerabilities

Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-41073 Benedict Schlueter discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly protect again...

USN-5092-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-41073 Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in...

USN-5092-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.11, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-41073 Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in...

USN-5091-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 vulnerabilities

Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel missed possible mispredicted branches due to type confusion, allowing a side-channel attack. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-33624 It was...

USN-5091-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel missed possible mispredicted branches due to type confusion, allowing a side-channel attack. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-33624 It was...

USN-5073-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

Norbert Slusarek discovered that the CAN broadcast manger bcm protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2021-34693 Murray McAllister discovered that the...

USN-5073-3 linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

Norbert Slusarek discovered that the CAN broadcast manger bcm protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2021-34693 Murray McAllister discovered that the...

CLSA-2021-1632262269 Fix of CVE: CVE-2021-34693, CVE-2021-20292, CVE-2021-28972, CVE-2021-20265, CVE-2021-32399, CVE-2014-4508, CVE-2021-3612, CVE-2021-3178, CVE-2021-37159, CVE-2021-38205, CVE-2021-3573, CVE-2021-38160

ELSCVE-666: CVE-2021-34693: can: bcm: fix infoleak in struct bcmmsghead - ELSCVE-705: CVE-2021-38160: virtioconsole: Assure used length from device is limited - ELSCVE-769: CVE-2014-4508: x8632, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys CVE-2014-4508 - ELSCVE-844: CVE-2021-3573: Bluetooth: use...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5073-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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-5073-2: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5073-2 linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15 vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

USN-5073-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

OESA-2021-1324 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because the protection mechanism neglects the possibility of...

In drivers/char/virtio_console.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4 data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; the length validation was added solely for robustness in the face of anomalous host OS behavior

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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38160

In drivers/char/virtioconsole.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf-len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; th...

AZL-6580 CVE-2021-38160 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.10.78.1-1

In drivers/char/virtioconsole.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf-len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; th...

CVE-2021-38160

In drivers/char/virtioconsole.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf-len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; th...