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...

SUSE CVE-2024-36890

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36890

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36890

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make freekfree accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831xgpiodbgshow. 171 char label freekfree =...

PT-2024-27192 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue arises from the Linux kernel's slab allocator, specifically when handling single object freeing separately from bulk object freeing. If init on free is set, the slab free hoo...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47470

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: fix potential use-after-free in slabdebugfsfops When sysfsslabadd failed, we shouldn't call debugfsslabadd for s because s will be freed soon. And slabdebugfsfops will use s later leading to a use-after-free...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: Change nlapolicy for bearer-related names to NLANULSTRING syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue 1: ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in strlen lib/string.c:418...

kernel: mm/slub: add missing TID updates on slab deactivation

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slub: add missing TID updates on slab deactivation The fastpath in slaballocnode assumes that c-slab is stable as long as the TID stays the same. However, two places in slaballoc currently don't update the TID when deactivatin...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5546

The freelist-randomization feature in mm/slab.c in the Linux kernel 4.8.x and 4.9.x before 4.9.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service duplicate freelist entries and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging the selection of a...

Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root) (CVE-2016-8655)

To create AFPACKET sockets you need CAPNETRAW in your network namespace, which can be acquired by unprivileged processes on systems where unprivileged namespaces are enabled Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. It can be triggered from within containers to compromise the host kernel. On Android, processes with...

kernel: nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab

The nfs4procsetacl function in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 stores NFSv4 ACL data in memory that is allocated by kmalloc but not properly freed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a crafted attempt to set an ACL...