Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/iommu: The LPAR panics during bootup due to a frozen PE. During the LPAR bootup, the partition firmware provides the ibm,dma-window property for the PE. This property is provided on the PCI bus to which the PE is...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux

The file arch/powerpc/kvm/book3srtas.c in the Linux kernel, as of version 5.13.5 on the PowerPC platform, allows KVM guest OS users to cause memory corruption in the host OS through rtasargs.nargs, also known as CID-f62f3c20647e...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: Whitelist slab/slub objects for copying to userspace Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu- results in a bug when the CONFIGHARDENEDUSERCOPY configuration is enabled, as shown belo...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/tm: Fixed corruption in user space r13. The commit cf13435b730a “powerpc/tm: Fixed corruption in user space r13” fixes a problem in treclaim, where a SLB miss can occur on threadstruct-ckpt regs, when SCRATCH0 is active a...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/lib: Validate size for vector operations Some parts of the fp/vmx code in sstep.c assume a certain maximum size for the instructions being emulated. However, the size of these operations is determined separately in the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/32: Fixed the hard lockup that occurred due to vmap stack overflow. Since the commit c118c7303ad5 “powerpc/32: Fixed vmap stack – Do not activate the MMU before reading the task struct”, a vmap stack overflow would result...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/powernv/sriov: Perform a null check on iov before dereferencing iov. Currently, the pointer iov is dereferenced before the null check of iov, which can lead to a null pointer dereference error. This issue is fixed by movi...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/cell/axonmsi: The refcount leak in setupmsimsgaddress has been fixed. The function ofgetnextparent returns a node pointer with the refcount incremented. We should use ofnodeput on it when it is no longer needed. Add the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PowerPC: Do not attempt to copy PPR for tasks with NULL pt regs. PowerPC sets up PFKTHREAD and PFIOWORKER with a NULL pt regs, which, according to my arguably very brief checking, is not commonly done for other architectures. Thi...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/kprobes: Fixed a null pointer reference in archpreparekprobe I found a null pointer reference in archpreparekprobe: echo 'p cmdlineprocshow' kprobeevents echo 'p cmdlineprocshow+16' kprobeevents The kernel attempted to re...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-multipath: fixed the flex array size in struct nvmenshead The struct nvmenshead contains a flexible array member, currentpath, which is indexed using the NUMA node ID: head-currentpathnumanodeid The structure is currently...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: PowerPC: Fixed virtaddrvalid for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit systems. MPE: On 64-bit Book3E, the vmalloc space starts at 0x8000000000000000. Due to the way pa works, pa0x8000000000000000 returns 0. Therefore,...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PowerPC architecture: Avoid using nmienter/nmiexit in real-mode interrupts. The nmienter/nmiexit functions access per-CPU variables, which can lead to a kernel crash when these functions are invoked during real-mode interrupt...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries/vas: Added a close callback in the vasvmops structure. The VMA address is saved in the VAS window structure when the paste address is mapped. This VMA address is used during migration to unmap the paste address if...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/smp: Do not decrement the preempt count of the idle task when the CPU is offline. With PREEMPTCOUNT=y, when a CPU is offline and then brought back online, we encounter the following issue: BUG: Scheduling while atomic:...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/eeh: avoided possible crashes when edev-pdev changes. If a PCI device is removed during eehpereportedev, edev-pdev will change, which may cause a crash. It is recommended to hold the PCI rescan/remove lock while taking a...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pseries: fixed a possible memory leak in ibmebusbusinit. If deviceregister returns an error in ibmebusbusinit, the name of the kobject allocated by devsetname, which is called in deviceadd, is leaked. According to the...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/mm: Fixed the null-pointer dereference in pgtablecacheadd. kasprintf returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory; this pointer may be NULL in case of failure. Ensure that the allocation was successful by checking th...

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/powernv: Added a null pointer check in opaleventinit. kasprintf returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory; this pointer can be NULL in case of failure...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: powerpc/xive: Fixed the refcount leak in xivespaprinit. offindcompatiblenode returns a node pointer with a refcount incremented; we should use ofnodeput on it after processing. Added ofnodeput to prevent the refcount leak...