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...

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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-2491

The Network Lock Manager NLM protocol implementation in the NFS client functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via a LOCKUN flock system call...

kernel: nfs: fix NFS v4 client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission

The nfspermission function in fs/nfs/dir.c in the NFS client implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.29.3 and earlier, when atomicopen is available, does not check execute aka EXEC or MAYEXEC permission bits, which allows local users to bypass permissions and execute files, as demonstrated by file...