kernel: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel’s POSIX CPU timer handling, where handleposixcputimers may run concurrently with posixcputimerdel on an exiting task which could result in use-after-free scenarios. An attacker with local user access could use this flaw to crash or escalate their...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle 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...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2025:15647)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:15647 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: mm/hugetlb: fix hugepmdunshar...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2025:15649)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:15649 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: ext4: use-after-free in...

Important: kernel-rt security update

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fixes: kernel: bpf: Don't use tnumrange on array range checking for poke descriptors CVE-2022-49985 kernel: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between...

ALSA-2025:15471 Important: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: bpf: Don't use tnumrange on array range checking for poke descriptors CVE-2022-49985 kernel: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handleposixcputimers and posixcputimerdel CVE-2025-38352 Fo...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38666

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: appletalk: Fix use-after-free in AARP proxy probe The AARP proxy‐probe routine aarpproxyprobenetwork sends a probe, releases the aarplock, sleeps, then re-acquires the lock. During that window an expire timer thread...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-26654

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - ALSA: sh: aica: reorder cleanup operations to avoid UAF bugs The dreamcastcard-timer could schedule the spudmawork and the spudmawork could also arm the...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52847

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - media: bttv: fix use after free error due to btv-timeout timer There may be some a race condition between timer function bttvirqtimeout and bttvremove. The tim...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: net: rose: Fix for timer race conditions against user threads. The Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without checking whether the socket is owned by a specific user thread. Add a check and reinitialize the timers i...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53094

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: serial: fsllpuart: fix race on RX DMA shutdown From time to time DMA completion can come in the middle of DMA shutdown: : : lpuart32shutdown lpuartdmashutdown deltimersync lpuartdmarxcomplete lpuartcopyrxtotty modtimer...

OESA-2025-1408 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nci: add flushworkqueue to prevent uaf Our detector found a concurrent use-after-free bug when detaching an NCI device. The main reason for this bug is the...

net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21825

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Cancel the running bpftimer through kworker for PREEMPTRT During the update procedure, when overwrite element in a pre-allocated htab, the freeing of oldelement is protected by the bucket lock. The reason why the bucket lock...

CVE-2025-21825

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Cancel the running bpftimer through kworker for PREEMPTRT During the update procedure, when overwrite element in a pre-allocated htab, the freeing of oldelement is protected by the bucket lock. The reason why the bucket lock...

SUSE CVE-2022-49149

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix call timer start racing with call destruction The rxrpccall struct has a timer used to handle various timed events relating to a call. This timer can get started from the packet input routines that are run in softirq...

AZL-57988 CVE-2025-21718 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.179.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rose: fix timer races against user threads Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without checking if the socket is owned by one user thread. Add a check and rearm the timers if needed. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21718

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rose: fix timer races against user threads Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without checking if the socket is owned by one user thread. Add a check and rearm the timers if needed. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free...

CVE-2025-21718

CVE-2025-21718 affects the Linux kernel Rose timer handling. The issue arises when Rose timers acquire only the socket spinlock and do not verify socket ownership, enabling a race against user threads. The described fix adds a socket ownership check and rearms timers as needed, addressing a KASAN...

CVE-2025-21718 net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rose: fix timer races against user threads Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without checking if the socket is owned by one user thread. Add a check and rearm the timers if needed. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free...