SUSE SLES15: kernel-azure / kernel-azure-devel / kernel-devel-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6949-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6949-2 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws i...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix a use-after-free CVE-2022-48666 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: relax socket state check at accept time. CVE-2024-36484 In the Linux kernel, the following...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-6952-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6952-2 advisory. Benedict Schlter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and...

USN-6955-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - M68K architecture; - OpenRISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; -...

CVE-2024-42250

A flaw was found in the cachefiles module in the Linux kernel. An improper locking protection in the cachefilesdaemonpoll function in the fs/cachefiles/daemon.c file can result in a race condition...

kernel: SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning I received the following warning while running cthon against an ontap server running pNFS: 57.202521 ============================= 57.202522 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 57.202523...

kernel: wifi: ath11k: fix gtk offload status event locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix gtk offload status event locking The ath11k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the gtk offload status event handling code calling ath11kmacgetarvifbyvdevid was not marked as a read-side critical section. Mark...

kernel: netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: acquire rcu_read_lock() in instance_destroy_rcu()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlinkqueue: acquire rcureadlock in instancedestroyrcu syzbot reported that nfreinject could be called without rcureadlock : WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.9.0-rc7-syzkaller-02060-g5c1672705a1a 0 Not tainted...

kernel: SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning I received the following warning while running cthon against an ontap server running pNFS: 57.202521 ============================= 57.202522 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 57.202523...

kernel: tls: fix missing memory barrier in tls_init

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix missing memory barrier in tlsinit In tlsinit, a write memory barrier is missing, and store-store reordering may cause NULL dereference in tlssetsockopt,getsockopt. CPU0 CPU1 ----- ----- // In tlsinit // In tlsctxcreate c...

kernel: wifi: ath11k: fix gtk offload status event locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix gtk offload status event locking The ath11k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the gtk offload status event handling code calling ath11kmacgetarvifbyvdevid was not marked as a read-side critical section. Mark...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6949-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6949-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update...

CVE-2024-42250

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray, otherwise: Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is ensured to be pinned there, while...

CVE-2024-42250

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray, otherwise: Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is ensured to be pinned there, while...

CVE-2024-42233

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filemap: replace pteoffsetmap with pteoffsetmapnolock The vmf-ptl in filemapfaultrecheckptenone is still set from handleptefault. But at the same time, we did a pteunmapvmf-pte. After a pteunmapvmf-pte unmap and rcureadunlock, th...

CVE-2024-42250 cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray, otherwise: Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is ensured to be pinned there, while...

CVE-2024-42250 cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray, otherwise: Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is ensured to be pinned there, while...

CVE-2024-42250

CVE-2024-42250 pertains to the Linux kernel, specifically the cachefiles subsystem. The root cause is a missing lock protection in the poll routine when iterating the xarray, which can lead to unsafe dereferencing of cachefiles_req objects stored in radix-tree slots even under an RCU read lock. T...

kernel: tls: fix missing memory barrier in tls_init

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix missing memory barrier in tlsinit In tlsinit, a write memory barrier is missing, and store-store reordering may cause NULL dereference in tlssetsockopt,getsockopt. CPU0 CPU1 ----- ----- // In tlsinit // In tlsctxcreate c...