Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6900-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6900-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

CVE-2024-40949

A flaw was found in "mm: shmem" in the Linux Kernel. This issue was resolved by fixing incorrect LRU vector handling when replacing shmem folios. The issue occurred because the replacement cleared the old folio's memory control group memcg data, causing incorrect LRU vector retrieval and potentia...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48796

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Fix potential use-after-free during probe Kasan has reported the following use after free on dev-iommu. when a device probe fails and it is in process of freeing dev-iommu in deviommufree function, a deferredprobeworkfunc...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48800

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress A soft lockup bug in kcompactd was reported in a private bugzilla with the following visible in dmesg; watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU33 stuck for 26s!...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48775

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbusaddchannelkobj kobjectinitandadd takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobjectinitandadd： If this function returns an error, kobjectput must be called to properly...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48775

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbusaddchannelkobj kobjectinitandadd takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobjectinitandadd： If this function returns an error, kobjectput must be called to properly...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48800

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress A soft lockup bug in kcompactd was reported in a private bugzilla with the following visible in dmesg; watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU33 stuck for 26s!...

USN-6896-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

USN-6893-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859 Several security issues we...

SUSE CVE-2024-40914

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: don't unpoison hugezerofolio When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1135! invalid opcode: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 9 PID: 137 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-2 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6895-2)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6895-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

kernel: mm/vmscan: fix a bug calling wakeup_kswapd() with a wrong zone index

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem. The wakeupkswapd function was called with an incorrect zone index. This error could disrupt the proper functioning of memory management, potentially leading to system instability or performance issues...

USN-6898-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

kernel: mm/vmscan: fix a bug calling wakeup_kswapd() with a wrong zone index

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's memory management subsystem. The wakeupkswapd function was called with an incorrect zone index. This error could disrupt the proper functioning of memory management, potentially leading to system instability or performance issues...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-1)

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-6898-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

USN-6896-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Return right value in iommusvabinddevice iommusvabinddevice should return either a sva bond handle or an ERRPTR value in error cases. Existing drivers idxd and uacce only check the return value with ISERR. This could...

USN-6895-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the HugeTLB file syst...