Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix middle attribute validation in pushnsh action The pushnsh action structure looks like this: OVSACTIONATTRPUSHNSHOVSKEYATTRNSHOVSNSHKEYATTRBASE,... The outermost OVSACTIONATTRPUSHNSH attribute is validated by...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: switchdev: Converting the blocking notification chain to a raw one A blocking notification chain uses a read-write semaphore to protect the integrity of the chain. The semaphore is acquired for writing when adding/removing...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: pm: only set fullmesh for subflow endp With the in-kernel path-manager, it is possible to change the ‘fullmesh’ flag. The code in mptcppmnlfullmesh expects to change this flag only on ‘subflow’ endpoints, in order to...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: fix use-after-free in ctnetlinkdumpexpct The ctnetlinkdumpexpct function stores a conntrack pointer in cb-data for the netlink dump callback ctnetlinkexpctdumptable. However, the conntrack reference is dropp...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ipv6: Fixed infinite recursion in fib6dumpdone. syzkaller reported infinite recursive calls of fib6dumpdone during netlink socket destruction. 1 According to the log, syzkaller sent an AFUNSPEC RTMGETROUTE message, and then th...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: fixed the potential NULL pointer dereference in nfcgenldumpsesdone. The done netlink callback nfcgenldumpsesdone should check whether the received argument is non-NULL, because its allocation might fail earlier in dumpit...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: pn533: Added check for filling the poll mod list. In cases where improtocols has a value of 1 and tmprotocols has a value of 0, this combination successfully passes the check. This condition is specified as “!improtocols &&...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: sr: fix out-of-bounds read when setting HMAC data. The SRv6 layer allows defining HMAC data that can later be used to sign IPv6 Segment Routing Headers. This configuration is realized through netlink using four attributes:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

In the Linux kernel up to version 5.8.7, local attackers who were able to inject conntrack netlink configurations could exploit an overflow in a local buffer, resulting in crashes or triggering the use of incorrect protocol numbers in ctnetlinkparsetuplefilter in net/netfilter/nfconntracknetlink....

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ila: Do not generate empty messages in ilaxlatnlcmdgetmapping. ilaxlatnlcmdgetmapping generates an empty skb, triggering a recent sanity check. Instead, an error code should be returned so that it can be processed by the user...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nftables: The netlink notifier might race to release objects. The commit release path is invoked via callrcu, and it runs without locking to release the objects after the rcu grace period. The netlink notifier handler...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

A issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before version 5.8. The lib/nlattr.c file allows attackers to cause a denial of service unbounded recursion through a nested Netlink policy with a back reference...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the netfilter component of the Linux kernel’s code, specifically the nftables module. This vulnerability can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Due to a race condition between the netlink control plane transaction and the garbage collectio...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch

A flaw was discovered in Open vSwitch, where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which may lead to a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: alx: takes rtnllock when resuming. Zbynek reports that alx fails an RTNL assertion when resuming. RTNL: The assertion failed at net/core/dev.c 2891. RIP: 0010: netifsetrealnumtxqueues + 0x1ac/0x1c0. Call Trace: alxopen +...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

There is a bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating an NFC device from user-space...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: WireGuard: netlink: Check for dangling peers via isdead instead of an empty list If all peers are removed using wgpeerremoveall, rather than setting peerlist to empty, the peer is added to a temporary list at the beginning of...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: WireGuard: netlink: Access the device through ctx instead of peer. The previous commit fixed a bug that resulted in a NULL peer-device being dereferenced. In terms of performance, it is actually easier and faster to obtain the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: macsec: Fixed the UAF bug related to realdev. A new macsec device was created, but there was no reference to realdev. This does not ensure that realdev is freed after the macsec device is removed. This will trigger the UAF bug...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

A issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before version 6.0.11. Missing offset validation in the drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/hif.c file, within the WILC1000 wireless driver, can lead to an out-of-bounds read when parsing a Robust Security Network RSN information element from a Netli...