Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

USN-6898-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-1)

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-6898-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-479.el9

"The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the kernel-5.14.0-479.el9 build changelog. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: j1939netdevstart: fix UAF for rxkref of j1939priv It...

RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:4533)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4533 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: TIPC message reassembly...

CVE-2024-40966

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40966

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

AZL-68214 CVE-2024-40966 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40966

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

CVE-2024-40966

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

CVE-2024-40966 tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

CVE-2024-40966

CVE-2024-40966 affects the Linux kernel tty subsystem. The fix adds an option to have a tty reject a new line discipline (ldisc) and limits virtual terminals to N_TTY, preventing con_write() from sleeping while holding a spinlock (which previously could trigger a BUG: sleeping function called fro...

CVE-2024-40966

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

CVE-2024-40966 tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

CVE-2024-40966 tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

USN-6895-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the HugeTLB file syst...

CVE-2024-40966: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: add the option to have a tty reject a new ldisc ... and use it to limit the virtual terminals to just NTTY. They are kind of special, and in particular, the "conwrite" routine violates the "writes cannot sleep" rule that som...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-1)

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-6896-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the tty driver failing to provide an option to reject new ldiscs when processing line discipline identifiers...

USN-6878-1: Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadc...