A random memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's GPU i915 kernel driver functionality in the way a user may run malicious code on the GPU. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the "virtext" field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to disable both VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts and VLS (Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE) for the L2 guest. As a result, the L2 guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape.
A flaw was discovered in the Bluetooth protocol. An attacker within physical proximity to the Bluetooth connection could downgrade the encryption protocol to be trivially brute forced.
An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system.
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.
A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts. An attacker with local access could use this information to reveal private data through a Spectre like side channel.
A flaw was found in the implementation of Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) abortion where a local authenticated attacker with the ability to monitor execution time is able to infer TSX memory state by comparing abort execution times.
This could allow information disclosure via this observed sidechannel for any TSX transaction being executed while an attacker is able to observe abort timing.
An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization).
It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire).
As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A heap based buffer overflow in mwifiexuapparsetailies function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c might lead to memory corruption and possibly other consequences.
A flaw was found in computer hardware of the Intel microprocessors related to the instruction-side TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) that caches translations from guest (and host) virtual addresses into physical addresses.
This is a software fix that attempts to prevent exploitation of the hardware through preventing a hacker from creating an exploitable condition
Additional information:
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ifu-page-mce
A vulnerability was found in icoutils in extract.c. It is possible to access unallocated memory via wrestool while parsing maliciously crafted file which would make the application crash or possibly allow code execution.
References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/56
Upstream patch:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/icoutils.git/commit/?id=1aa9f28f7bcbdfff6a84a15ac8d9a87559b1596a
The tcpmssmanglepacket function in net/netfilter/xtTCPMSS.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11, and 4.9.x before 4.9.36, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the presence of xtTCPMSS in an iptables action.
Last updated 24 July 2024
Last updated 24 July 2024
It was reported [1] that the Linux kernel suffered from a flaw when doing key garbage collection. The patch [1] describes the issue as:
""" When a key is being garbage collected, it's key->user would get put before the ->destroy() callback is called, where the key is removed from it's respective tracking structures.
This leaves a key hanging in a semi-invalid state which leaves a window open for a different task to try an access key->user. An example is findkeyringbyname() which would dereference key->user for a key that is in the process of being garbage collected (where key->user was freed but ->destroy() wasn't called yet - so it's still present in the linked list).
"""
An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141986398232547&w=2
It was reported [1] that iptables can allow protocols that do not have a protocol handler kernel module loaded.
Given following iptables ruleset: -P FORWARD DROP -A FORWARD -m sctp --dport 9 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -p tcp -m conntrack -m state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
One would assume that this allows SCTP on port 9 and TCP on port 80. Unfortunately, if the SCTP conntrack module is not loaded, this allows all SCTP communication to pass through, i.e. -p sctp -j ACCEPT
[1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg33430.html
It was discovered that the Kerberos implementation in the Security component of OpenJDK used RSA-MD5 checksum in Ticket Granting Service (TGS) requests even though MD5 algorithm is no longer considered safe for such use case. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to manipulate TGS requests.
A flaw was found in the Serialization component of OpenJDK handled serialization filter. A process-wide filter could have been modified by setting jdk.serialFilter system property at runtime, possibly leading to a bypass of the intended filter during deserialization.
Last updated 25 August 2025
Due to a missing case handling object types, a type confusion vulnerability could occur, resulting in a crash. We presume that with enough effort that it could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
A flaw was found in the way the Jar URL handler in the Networking component in OpenJDK handled URLs with nested jar: URLs. A specially crafted URL could cause Java application to exit when parsed.
An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JAXP component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
Last updated 18 August 2025
A flaw was discovered in the way the Libraries component of OpenJDK processed X.509 certificates. Values of Object Identifiers (OIDs) were "interned", possibly allowing a malicious X.509 certificate to trigger excessive memory usage in a Java application processing such certificate.
A flaw was found in the URL class implementation in the Networking component of OpenJDK. An incorrect check to determine if a URLStreamHandler is builtin or not can lead to incorrect URL normalization in certain cases.
A flaw was found in the what the BeanContextSupport class in the Serialization component of OpenJDK handled exceptions during deserialization. A specially-crafted input could cause a Java application to use an excessive amount of resources when deserialized.
An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Javadoc component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JAXP component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the DrawGlyphList class in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could use this flaw to cause a Java application to crash.