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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-058

Posted Mar 13, 2015

Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-058 - Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel. The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AF_ALG socket with a module name in the salg_name field, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9644. arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service by leveraging /dev/kvm access, as demonstrated by PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU. Various other issues have also been addressed. The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, x86, kernel, local, cryptography, vulnerability

systems | linux, mandriva

advisories | CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-3690, CVE-2014-8133, CVE-2014-8160, CVE-2014-8989, CVE-2014-9419, CVE-2014-9420, CVE-2014-9428, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2014-9584, CVE-2014-9585, CVE-2014-9644, CVE-2014-9683, CVE-2015-0239

SHA-256 | 9e3286645b07ba09497f299f4db502238c2d94c89713da2d000ee34aeb276a28

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