Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. 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...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6949-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6949-2 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws i...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-6952-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6952-2 advisory. Benedict Schlter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and...

CLSA-2024-1723495305 Fix of 19 CVEs

CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42068 - bpf: Take return from setmemoryro into account with bpfproglockro CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42079 - gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42226 - usb: xhci: prevent...

USN-6955-1 linux-oem-6.8 vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - OpenRISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; -...

USN-6955-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - OpenRISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; -...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-6955-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6955-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws i...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6952-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6952-1 advisory. Benedict Schlter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6949-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6949-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:5101)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5101 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: powerpc: Fix access beyond end...

SUSE CVE-2024-42079

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

CVE-2024-42079

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42079

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

AZL-47118 CVE-2024-42079 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

CVE-2024-42079

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

AZL-47166 CVE-2024-42079 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.43.1-7

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

CVE-2024-42079 gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

CVE-2024-42079 gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

CVE-2024-42079 gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_log_flush

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in gfs2logflush In gfs2jindexfree, set sdp-sdjdesc to NULL under the log flush lock to provide exclusion against gfs2logflush. In gfs2logflush, check if sdp-sdjdesc is non-NULL before...

CVE-2024-42079

CVE-2024-42079 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the gfs2 subsystem that could lead to a NULL pointer dereference during log flush operations. The root cause is a race between outstanding glock work and unmount, which could cause gfs2_log_flush() to dereference a freed or NULL sdp->sd_jdesc. ...