Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6898-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

USN-6896-1: 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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40951

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2aborttrigger bdev-bdsuper has been removed and commit 8887b94d9322 change the usage from bdev-bdsuper to bassocmap-host-isb. Since ocfs2 hasn't set bh-bassocmap, it will trigger NULL...

CVE-2024-40943

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO After commit "ocfs2: return real error code in ocfs2diowrgetblock", fstests/generic/300 become from always failed to sometimes failed:...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40943

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO After commit "ocfs2: return real error code in ocfs2diowrgetblock", fstests/generic/300 become from always failed to sometimes failed:...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40902

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr When an xattr size is not what is expected, it is printed out to the kernel log in hex format as a form of debugging. But when that xattr size is bigger than the expected size,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40951

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2aborttrigger bdev-bdsuper has been removed and commit 8887b94d9322 change the usage from bdev-bdsuper to bassocmap-host-isb. Since ocfs2 hasn't set bh-bassocmap, it will trigger NULL...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40943

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO After commit "ocfs2: return real error code in ocfs2diowrgetblock", fstests/generic/300 become from always failed to sometimes failed:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40902

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr When an xattr size is not what is expected, it is printed out to the kernel log in hex format as a form of debugging. But when that xattr size is bigger than the expected size,...

CVE-2024-40950

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugememory: fix misused mappinglargefoliosupport for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING " 5059.122759 T166 Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmo...

CVE-2024-40943

CVE-2024-40943 concerns the Linux kernel ocfs2 subsystem where races between hole punching and asynchronous I/O (AIO) and direct I/O (DIO) could cause on-disk extent inconsistencies. The description and connected advisories indicate the issue is rooted in concurrency between fallocate/punch_hole ...

CVE-2024-40943 ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: fix races between hole punching and AIO+DIO After commit "ocfs2: return real error code in ocfs2diowrgetblock", fstests/generic/300 become from always failed to sometimes failed:...

USN-6895-1: 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 HugeTLB file syst...

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 stems from a failure of the f2fs filesystem to properly handle read-only errors on shutdown, which could result in a...

Linux kernel code issue vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. A code issue vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from a null pointer dereference in the ocfs2 file system in the ocfs2aborttrigger function...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from a null pointer dereference issue in the ocfs2 file system in the ocfs2journaldirty function...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-1 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...

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 stems from a failure of the btrfs:zoned component to properly allocate virtual checksums when handling write operations...

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 stems from a potential deadlock issue in the ext4 file system when creating an EA inode...