Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.

Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.

kernel-devel-5.14.6-1.4 on GA media

kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation kernel: Use-after-free in drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial-of-service kernel: HMAC implementation does not validate that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is unkeyed allowing local attackers to cause denial-of-service kernel: Mishandled freeing of instances in pcrypt.c can allow a local user to cause a denial of service kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in mm/madvise.c:madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c kernel: netfilter: xtables NULL pointer dereference in ip6_tables.c:ip6t_do_table() leading to a crash kernel: Out-of-bounds write via userland offsets in ebt_entry struct in netfilter/ebtables.c kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4/mballoc.c:ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image kernel: out-of-bound access in fs/posix_acl.c:get_acl() causes crash with crafted ext4 image kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service hw: cpu: speculative store bypass kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release…

Security update for the Linux Kernel

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-hwe, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-kvm, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-oem, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-raspi2

Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device file.