Security Bulletin: Multiple Linux Kernel vulnerabilities may affect IBM Elastic Storage System

Summary There are some vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, used by IBM Elastic Storage System, which could allow a denial of service. Fixes for these vulnerabilities are available. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-32233 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to...

AlmaLinux 8 : kernel (ALSA-2023:7549)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:7549 advisory. - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.9. drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c has a use- after-free, related to dvbregisterdevice dynamical...

Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2023-7549)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-7549 advisory. - media: dvb-core: Fix use-after-free due to race at dvbregisterdevice Mauro Carvalho Chehab CVE-2022-45884 - cifs: Fix UAF in cifsdemultiplexthread...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2023:7423)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7423 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: net/sched: schqfq component ca...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6502-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6502-1 advisory. Ivan D Barrera, Christopher Bednarz, Mustafa Ismail, and Shiraz Saleem discovered that the InfiniBand RDMA driver in the Linux kernel did not...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6503-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6503-1 advisory. Yu Hao discovered that the UBI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for MTD with zero erasesize during device attachment. A local...

RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:7370)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7370 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet...

RHEL 7 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:7419)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7419 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6496-1)

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-6496-1 advisory. Ivan D Barrera, Christopher Bednarz, Mustafa Ismail, and Shiraz Saleem discovered that the InfiniBand RDMA driver in the Linux kernel did not...

Fedora 39 : kernel (2023-c3bb819677)

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-c3bb819677 advisory. The 6.5.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2022:0825)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:0825 advisory. - In unixscmtoskb of afunix.c, there is a possible use after free bug due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4375-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4375-1 advisory. - Incorrect verifier pruning in BPF in Linux Kernel =5.4 leads to unsafe code paths being...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2022:7683)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:7683 advisory. - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16.11. The mixed IPID assignment method with the hash-based IPID assignment policy allows an...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel-rt (RLSA-2022:7444)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:7444 advisory. - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16.11. The mixed IPID assignment method with the hash-based IPID assignment policy allows an...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2023:0101)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:0101 advisory. - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple...

Rocky Linux 9 : kernel (RLSA-2022:7318)

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:7318 advisory. - The Linux kernel before 5.17.2 mishandles seccomp permissions. The PTRACESEIZE code path allows attackers to bypass intended restrictions on setting t...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4351-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4351-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw in the kernel Xen event handler can cause a deadlock with Xen console handling in unprivileged Xen guests. CVE-2023-34324 An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-azure / dlm-kmp-azure / gfs2-kmp-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:4345-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4345-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following...

SUSE-SU-2023:4351-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2023-3777: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in netfilter: nftables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. bsc1215095 -...