kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev

A double-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user registers the device when the registernetdevice function fails NETDEVREGISTER notifier. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev

A double-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user registers the device when the registernetdevice function fails NETDEVREGISTER notifier. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

ALSA-2023:7077 Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: tun: avoid double free in tunfreenetdev CVE-2022-4744 kernel: net/sched: multiple vulnerabilities CVE-2023-3609, CVE-2023-3611, CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208...

RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:6799)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6799 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel...

kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious too big networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, i...

kernel: tap: tap_open(): correctly initialize socket uid next fix of i_uid to current_fsuid

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's TUN/TAP functionality. This issue could allow a local user to bypass network filters and gain unauthorized access to some resources. The original patches fixing CVE-2023-1076 are incorrect or incomplete. The problem is that the following upstream commits -...

USN-6445-2: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service excessive CPU consumption. CVE-2023-1206 Daniel Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities (USN-6445-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6445-2 advisory. It was discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel contained a high rate of hash collisions in connection lookup table. A remote attacker...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2023-0296)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

MGASA-2023-0296 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 6.4.16 and fixes or adds mitigations for atleast the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be...

MGASA-2023-0295 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 6.4.16 and fixes or adds mitigations for atleast the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be often...