NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2022-0040)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.14.11. A double free may be caused by the function allocatetracebuffer in the file...

Debian DLA-2843-1 : linux - LTS security update

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2843 advisory. - Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel exploitable by a local attacker due to reuse of a DCCP socket with an attached dccpshctxccid object as a listene...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-5120-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5120-1 advisory. It was discovered that the f2fs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata in some situations. An attacker could use this to...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities (USN-5071-3)

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-5071-3 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference counting in some situations,...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities (USN-5073-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-3 advisory. Norbert Slusarek discovered that the CAN broadcast manger bcm protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory in some...

CVE-2021-3612: Improper Input Validation

An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's joystick devices subsystem in versions before 5.9-rc1, in the way the user calls ioctl JSIOCSBTNMAP. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or possibly escalate their privileges on the system. The highest threat from th...