Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.36.4 - KVM: nVMX: Check IO instruction VM-exit conditions Oliver Upton Orabug: 30944739 CVE-2020-2732 - KVM: nVMX: Refactor IO bitmap checks into helper function Oliver Upton Orabug: 30944739 CVE-2020-2732 - KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest mode Paolo Bonzini Orabug:...

CVE-2019-7221

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor emulates a preemption timer for L2 guests when nested =1 virtualization is enabled. This high resolution timerhrtimer runs when a L2 guest is active. After VM exit, the syncvmcs12 timer object is stopped. The...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12904

In arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.2, when nested virtualization is used, local attackers could cause L1 KVM guests to VMEXIT, potentially allowing privilege escalations and denial of service attacks due to lack of checking of CPL...

KVM (Nested Virtualization) - L1 Guest Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc When KVM on Intel virtualizes another hypervisor as L1 VM it does not verify that VMX instructions from the L1 VM which trigger a VM exit and are emulated by L0 KVM are coming from ring 0. For code running on bare metal or VMX root mode this is...

KVM (Nested Virtualization) - L1 Guest Privilege Escalation

KVM Nested Virtualization - L1 Guest Privilege Escalation When KVM on Intel virtualizes another hypervisor as L1 VM it does not verify that VMX instructions from the L1 VM which trigger a VM exit and are emulated by L0 KVM are coming from ring 0. For code running on bare metal or VMX root mode th...

KVM (Nested Virtualization) - L1 Guest Privilege Escalation

When KVM on Intel virtualizes another hypervisor as L1 VM it does not verify that VMX instructions from the L1 VM which trigger a VM exit and are emulated by L0 KVM are coming from ring 0. For code running on bare metal or VMX root mode this is enforced by hardware. However, for code running in L...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

kernel: kvm: vmx: invept vm exit not handled

It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT instructions. On hosts with an Intel processor and invept VM exit support, an unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1843)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1843 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux...

kernel: kvm: vmx: invvpid vm exit not handled

It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invvpid Invalidate Translations Based on VPID instructions. On hosts with an Intel processor and invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest...

kernel: xen: vmx: insecure cpuid vmexit

Xen, when using x86 Intel processors and the VMX virtualization extension is enabled, does not properly handle cpuid instruction emulation when exiting the VM, which allows local guest users to cause a denial of service guest crash via unspecified vectors...