SUSE-SU-2023:2501-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2023-2269: Fixed a denial-of-service problem due to a possible recursive locking scenario, resulting in a deadlock in tableclear in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c...

CLSA-2023-1686651204 kernel: Fix of 25 CVEs

cgroup: Use open-time cgroup namespace for process migration perm checks CVE-2021-4197 - cgroup: Use open-time credentials for process migraton perm checks CVE-2021-4197 - vt: drop old FONT ioctls CVE-2021-33656 - fbmem: Check virtual screen sizes in fbsetvar CVE-2021-33655 - fbcon: Prevent that...

PT-2025-38207

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The Linux kernel contained a flaw in the md/raid10 subsystem within the md bitmap get counter function. A missing check for out-of-bounds access in the md bitmap get counter function,...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 12 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:2429)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2023:2429 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-1504002463 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2023-23454: Fixed a type-confusion in...

SUSE SLES15: kernel-livepatch-5_3_18-150200_24_148-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2401)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2401 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 5.3.18-15020024148 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2023-1989: Fixed a use...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel RT (Live Patch 7 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:2367-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2023:2367-1 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-1504001528 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2023-23454: Fixed a type-confusion i...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 30 for SLE 12 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:2420)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2420 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-95108 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2023-28464: Fixed...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (Live Patch 5 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:2443-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2443-1 advisory. This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-1504002433 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2023-28464: Fixed...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6132-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6132-1 advisory. Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2020)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.15.110 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A slab-out-of-bound read problem was found in brcmfgetassocies in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c. This issue could occur when associnfo-reqlen data is bigger than t...

kernel: slab-out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in cbq_classify

An out-of-bounds OOB read problem was found in cbqclassify in net/sched/schcbq.c in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to type confusion. Non-negative numbers could indicate a TCACTSHOT condition rather than valid classification results...

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...

kernel: dm cache: free background tracker's queued work in btracker_destroy

A memory leak was found in the device-mapper cache target in the Linux kernel. The btrackerdestroy function fails to free queued work items from the background tracker before destroying the slab cache. This triggers a BUG when kmemcacheshutdown finds objects still remaining...

PT-2025-41054

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The Linux kernel contained a deadlock situation between the shrink slab and dm pool abort metadata processes. This occurred due to concurrent processes involving dropping caches and...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2023-1735)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.313-162.533. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1735 advisory. 2023-06-07: CVE-2023-1838 was added to this advisory. A use-after-free flaw was found in vhostnetsetbackend in...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1614)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLED12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:1803-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLEDSAP12 / SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1803-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5987-1)

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-5987-1 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1...

CVE-2023-1380

A slab-out-of-bound read problem was found in brcmfgetassocies in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue could occur when associnfo-reqlen data is bigger than the size of the buffer, defined as WLEXTRABUFMAX, leading to a denial of service...