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 an improper locking sequence...

CVE-2023-52668: Improper Locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: fix lock ordering in btrfszoneactivate The btrfs CI reported a lockdep warning as follows by running generic generic/129. WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.7.0-rc5+ 1 Not tainted...

PT-2024-14686

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A potential circular locking issue was identified in the smb2 set ea function. This issue arises because smb2 set ea can be called within the parent inode lock range. To address this, th...

CVE-2024-35808: Improper Locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/dm-raid: don't call mdreapsyncthread directly Currently mdreapsyncthread is called from raidmessage directly without holding 'reconfigmutex', this is definitely unsafe because mdreapsyncthread can change many fields that is...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1650-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1650-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

Intel Graphics Driver Context Close Buffer Overflow

The vulnerability of the contextclose function in the drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915gemcontext.c file of the Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics driver for the Linux operating system is related to improper locking of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the...

Linux p2sb_bar Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the p2sbbar function in the drivers/platform/x86/p2sb.c module of the Linux operating system is related to a crash due to repeated resource locking. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

OESA-2024-1567 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: use callrcu to free endpoint This patch is to delay the endpoint free by calling callrcu to fix another use-after-free issue in sctpsockdump: BUG: KASAN:...

PT-2024-5402 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a potential deadlock scenario in the Linux kernel, specifically in the media: v4l2-ctrls module. This scenario can occur due to unsafe locking, as shown in the...

SUSE CVE-2024-27005

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: interconnect: Don't access reqlist while it's being manipulated The icclock mutex was split into separate icclock and iccbwlock mutexes in 1 to avoid lockdep splats. However, this didn't adequately protect access to...

SUSE CVE-2024-27031

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Fix nfsnetfsissueread xarray locking for writeback interrupt The loop inside nfsnetfsissueread currently does not disable interrupts while iterating through pages in the xarray to submit for NFS read. This is not safe though...

SUSE CVE-2024-27062

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nouveau: lock the client object tree. It appears the client object tree has no locking unless I've missed something else. Fix races around adding/removing client objects, mostly vram bar mappings. 4562.099306 general protection...

SUSE CVE-2024-27080

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix race when detecting delalloc ranges during fiemap For fiemap we recently stopped locking the target extent range for the whole duration of the fiemap call, in order to avoid a deadlock in a scenario where the fiemap...

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 the possibility that the radeon locking work queue may not be fully flushed...

CVE-2022-48671: Improper Locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup: Add missing cpusreadlock to cgroupattachtaskall syzbot is hitting percpurwsemassertheld&cpuhotpluglock warning at cpusetattach 1, for commit 4f7e7236435ca0ab "cgroup: Fix threadgrouprwsem cpusreadlock deadlock" missed tha...

PT-2024-9809

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the ks8851 component in the Linux kernel, which is associated with incorrect resource locking. This can lead to a denial of service. The problem arises when the...

PT-2024-9787

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.37 Description: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's md component is related to incorrect locking, which can cause a softlockup when the bitmap size is less than the array size. This issue can be triggered ...

CVE-2024-27031

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Fix nfsnetfsissueread xarray locking for writeback interrupt The loop inside nfsnetfsissueread currently does not disable interrupts while iterating through pages in the xarray to submit for NFS read. This is not safe though...

CVE-2024-27062

A flaw was found in the nouveau module in the Linux kernel. A missing resource lock can cause a race condition and trigger a general protection fault, resulting in a denial of service. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the...

CVE-2024-26987

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memory-failure: fix deadlock when hugetlboptimizevmemmap is enabled When I did hard offline test with hugetlb pages, below deadlock occurs: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular...