USN-6820-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

USN-6819-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Alon Zahavi discovered that the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate H2C PDU data, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2023-6356, CVE-2023-6535, CVE-2023-6536 Chenyuan...

SUSE CVE-2023-52622

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid online resizing failures due to oversized flex bg When we online resize an ext4 filesystem with a oversized flexbgsize, mkfs.ext4 -F -G 67108864 $dev -b 4096 100M mount $dev $dir resize2fs $dev 16G the following WARNO...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6816-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6816-1 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...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6821-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6821-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

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...

PT-2024-33809

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns the ext4 filesystem in the Linux kernel. When mounting the ext4 filesystem, if the default hash version is set to DX HASH SIPHASH but the casefold feature is not set...

SUSE CVE-2022-1184

A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/ext4/namei.c:dxinsertblock in the Linux kernel's filesystem sub-component. This flaw allows a local attacker with a user privilege to cause a denial of service...

SUSE CVE-2023-1252

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Ext4 File System in how a user triggers several file operations simultaneously with the overlay FS usage. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. Only if patch 9a2544037600 "ovl: fix use...

CVE-2024-36882

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

SUSE CVE-2024-36882

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2024-2560)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.158-129.185. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2560 advisory. The Linux kernel before 5.4.2 mishandles ext4expandextraisize, as demonstrated by use-after-free errors in...

CVE-2024-36882

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36882

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

CVE-2024-36882 mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

CVE-2024-36882 mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

CVE-2024-36882 mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/alternatives: Disable KASAN in applyalternatives CVE-2023-52504 A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the hugetlbfsfillsuper function in the Linux kernel hugetlbfs HugeTLB pages functionality. This issu...

CVE-2024-36882: Improper Locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The Linux kernel before 5.4.2 mishandles ext4expandextraisize, as demonstrated by use-after-free errors in ext4expandextraisize and ext4xattrsetentry, related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c, aka CID-4ea99936a163. CVE-2019-19767 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory...