Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6817-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6817-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-scx_rustland (FEDORA-2024-40ee18b2e7)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE CVE-2023-0160

A deadlock flaw was found in the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem. This flaw allows a local user to potentially crash the system...

The vulnerability of the get_syms() function in the bpf component of the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to induce a service failure.

The vulnerability of the getsyms function tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progtests/kprobemultitest.c in the Linux kernel’s BPF component is related to a memory overflow issue. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure remotely...

RHEL 8 : libbpf (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - libbpf: heap-based buffer overflow 8 bytes in bpfobjectopen CVE-2021-45941 - libbpf 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 has a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: rust-scx_rusty-0.5.4-2.fc39

A multi-domain, BPF / user space hybrid scheduler used within schedext, which is a Linux kernel feature which enables implementing kernel thread schedulers in BPF and dynamically loading them. https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/tree/main...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: rust-scx_rustland-0.0.3-2.fc39

A BPF component dispatcher that implements the low level sched-ext functionalities and a user-space counterpart scheduler, written in Rust, that implements the actual scheduling policy. This is used within schedext, which is a Linux kernel feature which enables implementing kernel thread schedule...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36938

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in skpsockskbingressenqueue Fix NULL pointer data-races in skpsockskbingressenqueue which syzbot reported 1. 1 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in skpsockdrop / skpsockskbingressenqueue write to...

CVE-2024-36938 bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in skpsockskbingressenqueue Fix NULL pointer data-races in skpsockskbingressenqueue which syzbot reported 1. 1 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in skpsockdrop / skpsockskbingressenqueue write to...

CVE-2024-36938 bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in skpsockskbingressenqueue Fix NULL pointer data-races in skpsockskbingressenqueue which syzbot reported 1. 1 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in skpsockdrop / skpsockskbingressenqueue write to...

CVE-2024-36938

CVE-2024-36938 : Linux kernel vulnerability in bpf, skmsg subsystems causing NULL pointer dereference and data races in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue. The issue involves concurrent access to saved_data_ready and related sk_psock state, leading to an in-kernel NULL dereference under data-race condi...

CVE-2024-36938 bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, skmsg: Fix NULL pointer dereference in skpsockskbingressenqueue Fix NULL pointer data-races in skpsockskbingressenqueue which syzbot reported 1. 1 BUG: KCSAN: data-race in skpsockdrop / skpsockskbingressenqueue write to...

CVE-2024-36918 bpf: Check bloom filter map value size

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Check bloom filter map value size This patch adds a missing check to bloom filter creating, rejecting values above KMALLOCMAXSIZE. This brings the bloom map in line with many other map types. The lack of this protection can...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that originates from a null pointer dereference in the bpf,skmsg module skpsockskbingressenqueue...

Low: bcc

Issue Overview: If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default...

SUSE CVE-2021-47563

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: avoid bpfprog refcount underflow Ice driver has the routines for managing XDP resources that are shared between ndobpf op and VSI rebuild flow. The latter takes place for example when user changes queue count on an interface...

Oracle Linux 8 : systemd (ELSA-2024-3203)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-3203 advisory. - Oracle-Redhat Errata ELSA-2023:3837 CVE-2023-26604 OLERRATA-43629 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux securit...

The vulnerability of the test_fentry() function in the tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tracing_struct.c module of the Linux kernel’s bpf component allows a hacker to induce a system failure.

The vulnerability of the testfentry function in the tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progtests/tracingstruct.c module of the bpf component of the Linux operating system is related to a memory leak. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-scx_rusty (FEDORA-2024-ce2936b568)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-scx_rustland (FEDORA-2024-ce2936b568)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...