kernel security update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating...

OESA-2024-1894 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek When we started spreading new inode numbers throughout most of the 64 bit inode space, that triggered some corne...

OESA-2024-1896 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Don't overflow in peek When we started spreading new inode numbers throughout most of the 64 bit inode space, that triggered some corne...

Rocky Linux 9 : kernel (RLSA-2024:4583)

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:4583 advisory. kernel: TIPC message reassembly use-after-free remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-36886 kernel: ethernet: hisilicon: hns: hnsdsafmisc: fix a...

kernel: scsi: lpfc: Release hbalock before calling lpfc_worker_wake_up()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Release hbalock before calling lpfcworkerwakeup lpfcworkerwakeup calls the lpfcworkdone routine, which takes the hbalock. Thus, lpfcworkerwakeup should not be called while holding the hbalock to avoid potential deadlo...

kernel: scsi: lpfc: Release hbalock before calling lpfc_worker_wake_up()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Release hbalock before calling lpfcworkerwakeup lpfcworkerwakeup calls the lpfcworkdone routine, which takes the hbalock. Thus, lpfcworkerwakeup should not be called while holding the hbalock to avoid potential deadlo...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout CVE-2024-27397 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf CVE-2024-41009 In...

SUSE CVE-2022-48842

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Fix race condition during interface enslave Commit 5dbbbd01cbba83 "ice: Avoid RTNL lock when re-creating auxiliary device" changes a process of re-creation of aux device so iceplugauxdev is called from iceservicetask context...

SUSE CVE-2021-47622

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ufs: Fix a deadlock in the error handler The following deadlock has been observed on a test setup: - All tags allocated - The SCSI error handler calls ufshcdehhostresethandler - ufshcdehhostresethandler queues work that cal...

SUSE CVE-2022-48784

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cfg80211: fix race in netlink owner interface destruction My previous fix here to fix the deadlock left a race where the exact same deadlock see the original commit referenced below can still happen if cfg80211destroyifaces alrea...

SUSE CVE-2022-48800

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress A soft lockup bug in kcompactd was reported in a private bugzilla with the following visible in dmesg; watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU33 stuck for 26s!...

SUSE CVE-2022-48826

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vc4: Fix deadlock on DSI device attach error DSI device attach to DSI host will be done with host device's lock held. Un-registering host in "device attach" error path ex: probe retry will result in deadlock with below call...

SUSE CVE-2024-40965

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: lpi2c: Avoid calling clkgetrate during transfer Instead of repeatedly calling clkgetrate for each transfer, lock the clock rate and cache the value. A deadlock has been observed while adding tlv320aic32x4 audio codec to the...

SUSE CVE-2024-40967

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: Introduce timeout when waiting on transmitter empty By waiting at most 1 second for USR2TXDC to be set, we avoid a potential deadlock. In case of the timeout, there is not much we can do, so we simply ignore the...

SUSE CVE-2024-40969

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: don't set RO when shutting down f2fs Shutdown does not check the error of thawsuper due to readonly, which causes a deadlock like below. f2fsiocshutdownF2FSGOINGDOWNFULLSYNC issuediscardthread - bdevfreeze - freezesuper -...

SUSE CVE-2024-40972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock ext4xattrsetentry creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the allocation locking which acquires locks on othe...

SUSE CVE-2024-40977

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix potential hung tasks during chip recovery During chip recovery e.g. chip reset, there is a possible situation that kernel worker resetwork is holding the lock and waiting for kernel thread statworker to b...

kernel: can: j1939: prevent deadlock by changing j1939_socks_lock to rwlock

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's Controller Area Network CAN protocol, within the J1939 protocol implementation. This issue occurs due to a potential deadlock caused by a race condition involving three locks: j1939sockslock, activesessionlistlock, and sksessionqueuelock. This issue...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: nvme: fix reconnection fail due to reserved tag allocation

CVE-2024-27435 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the NVMe over RDMA implementation, where a reconnection failure occurs due to a deadlock caused by reserved tag allocation. The issue arises when the admin queue is quiesced while resetting the controller, causing a keep-alive request to hold the...