Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix fortify source warning while accessing Eth segment

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mlx5 InfiniBand driver. Certain scenarios could lead to a use-after-free issue, potentially allowing an attacker to escalate their privileges or affect system integrity or stability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update 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...

RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:4106)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4106 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:4108)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4108 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: netfilter: nftables: use...

SUSE CVE-2022-48745

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use deltimersync in fw reset flow of halting poll Substitute deltimer with deltimersync in fw reset polling deactivation flow, in order to prevent a race condition which occurs when deltimer is called and timer is...

SUSE CVE-2022-48746

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Fix handling of wrong devices during bond netevent Current implementation of bond netevent handler only check if the handled netdev is VF representor and it missing a check if the VF representor is on the same phys...

SUSE CVE-2024-36281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

SUSE CVE-2024-38556

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore Prevent forced completion handling on an entry that has not yet been assigned an index, causing an out of bounds access on idx = -22. Instead of waiting indefinitely...

SUSE CVE-2024-38557

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Reload only IB representors upon lag disable/enable On lag disable, the bond IB device along with all of its representors are destroyed, and then the slaves' representors get reloaded. In case the slave IB representor...

SUSE CVE-2024-38595

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix peer devlink set for SF representor devlink port The cited patch change register devlink flow, and neglect to reflect the changes for peer devlink set logic. Peer devlink set is triggering a call trace if done after...

CVE-2024-36281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

CVE-2024-36281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36281

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

CVE-2024-36281

CVE-2024-36281 affects the Linux kernel net/mlx5/IPsec rules. The vulnerability arises from rx_create and improper mlx5_modify_header_dealloc usage, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference and an earlier rule-leak when two status rules are populated. The fix switches to mlx5_ipsec_rx_statu...

CVE-2024-36281 net/mlx5: Use mlx5_ipsec_rx_status_destroy to correctly delete status rules

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Use mlx5ipsecrxstatusdestroy to correctly delete status rules rxcreate no longer allocates a modifyhdr instance that needs to be cleaned up. The mlx5modifyheaderdealloc call will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A le...

SUSE CVE-2024-38555

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Discard command completions in internal error Fix use after free when FW completion arrives while device is in internal error state. Avoid calling completion handler in this case, since the device will flush the command...

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 a problem with the net/mlx5 module...

CVE-2024-38556

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore Prevent forced completion handling on an entry that has not yet been assigned an index, causing an out of bounds access on idx = -22. Instead of waiting indefinitely...