In FRR, the internet routing protocol suite software, all routes are re-validated if the total size of an update received via RTR exceeds the internal socket's buffer size, default 4K on most OSes. . From: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez To:
revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) ---- x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) ---- x86: Race condition in Xen mapping code [XSA-345] undue deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes [XSA-346] unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates [XSA-347]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-6dd36a716c 2020-11-20 01:28:41.818164 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : xen Product : Fedora 31 Version : 4.12.3 Release : 8.fc31 URL : https://xenproject.org/ Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor Description : This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the Xen hypervisor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) ---- x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) ---- x86: Race condition in Xen mapping code [XSA-345] undue deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes [XSA-346] unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates [XSA-347] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Tue Nov 3 2020 Michael Young - 4.12.3-8 - revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) * Thu Oct 29 2020 Michael Young - 4.12.3-7 - x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) * Tue Oct 20 2020 Michael Young - 4.12.3-6 - x86: Race condition in Xen mapping code [XSA-345, CVE-2020-27672] (#1891097) - undue deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes [XSA-346, CVE-2020-27671] (#1891093) - unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates [XSA-347, CVE-2020-27670] (#1891088) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug#1891087 - CVE-2020-27670 xen: unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates (XSA-347) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891087 [ 2 ] Bug #1891089 - CVE-2020-27674 xen: x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries (XSA-286) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891089 [ 3 ] Bug #1891091 - CVE-2020-27671 xen: undue deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes (XSA-346) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891091 [ 4 ] Bug #1891096 - CVE-2020-27672 xen: x86: race condition in Xen mapping code (XSA-345) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891096 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-6dd36a716c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list --
revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) ---- x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) simplify grub scripts (patches from Thierry Vignaud ) some fixes for gcc 11 . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-ec84c1565b 2020-11-12 03:05:39.155788 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : xen Product : Fedora 33 Version : 4.14.0 Release : 9.fc33 URL : https://xenproject.org/ Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor Description : This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the Xen hypervisor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) ---- x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) simplify grub scripts (patches from Thierry Vignaud ) some fixes for gcc 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Tue Nov 3 2020 Michael Young - 4.14.0-9 - revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) * Fri Oct 30 2020 Jeff Law - 4.14.0-8 - Work around gcc-11 stringop-overflow diagnostics as well * Wed Oct 28 2020 Michael Young - 4.14.0-7 - x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) - simplify grub scripts (patches from Thierry Vignaud ) - some fixes for gcc 11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #1891089 - CVE-2020-27674 xen: x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries (XSA-286) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891089 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thisupdate can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-ec84c1565b' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list --
New bind packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] bind (SSA:2020-140-01) New bind packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/bind-9.11.19-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: A malicious actor who intentionally exploits the lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches, and the attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor. Replaying a TSIG BADTIME response as a request could trigger an assertion failure. For more information, see: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8616 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8616 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8617 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8617 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 14.0: Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: Updated package for Slackware 14.1: Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: Updated package for Slackware 14.2: Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: Updated package forSlackware -current: Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.0 package: 8a8be89119053b4cf308e94c39b0441f bind-9.11.19-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: c1ff5217ff073769862204f708bfc969 bind-9.11.19-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 08b6ff961e66d98a4a3cab7dc6485c83 bind-9.11.19-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 28421755e2c614bbfba77ad5d19ed95a bind-9.11.19-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware 14.2 package: 3def6c8b8115e1b5eb199281dd7bd6c7 bind-9.11.19-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 1533854201484c39c4d6d13a0b0ac246 bind-9.11.19-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware -current package: 1d0111759a7622d5341a3acb620d42a8 n/bind-9.16.3-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: f22d2d2b35b461bca96df936a65fc4dc n/bind-9.16.3-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.11.19-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart +-----+ . Recent bind updates resolve essential security vulnerabilities in Slackware versions. Update promptly to improve your defense today.. bind security, Slackware update, performance issues, security fixes, system upgrade. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Note: This issue is present in hardware and cannot be fully fixed via software update. The updated kernel [More...]. Synopsis: Important: kernel security update Advisory ID: SLSA-2018:0008-1 Issue Date: 2018-01-03 CVE Numbers: CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5754 -- Security Fix(es): An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Note: This issue is present in hardware and cannot be fully fixed via software update. The updated kernel packages provide software mitigation for this hardware issue at a cost of potential performance penalty. The performance impact of these patches may vary considerably based on workload and hardware configuration. In this update mitigations for x86-64 architecture are provided. Variant CVE-2017-5753 triggers the speculative execution by performing a bounds-check bypass. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory accesses may cause allocation 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 cross the syscall boundary and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2017-5753, Important) Variant CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizing branch target injection. It relies on the presence of aprecisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory accesses may cause allocation 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 cross the syscall and guest/host boundaries and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2017-5715, Important) Variant CVE-2017-5754 relies on the fact that, on impacted microprocessors, during speculative execution of instruction permission faults, exception generation triggered by a faulting access is suppressed until the retirement of the whole instruction block. In a combination with the fact that memory accesses may populate the cache even when the block is being dropped and never committed (executed), an unprivileged local attacker could use this flaw to read privileged (kernel space) memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2017-5754, Important) Note: CVE-2017-5754 affects Intel x86-64 microprocessors. AMD x86-64 microprocessors are not affected by this issue. -- SL6 x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64.rpm i386 kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm perf-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.i686.rpm noarch kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.noarch.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team . Important kernel patch mitigates vulnerabilities related to performance exploitation in SL6.x caused by speculative execution flaws.. kernel exploits, speculative execution, SL6 security, hardware mitigation, performance impact. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
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