kernel: tcindex: use-after-free vulnerability in traffic control index filter allows privilege escalation

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the traffic control index filter tcindex in the Linux kernel. The imperfect hash area can be updated while packets are traversing. This issue could allow a local attacker to cause a use-after-free problem, leading to privilege escalation...

kernel: tcindex: use-after-free vulnerability in traffic control index filter allows privilege escalation

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the traffic control index filter tcindex in the Linux kernel. The imperfect hash area can be updated while packets are traversing. This issue could allow a local attacker to cause a use-after-free problem, leading to privilege escalation...

USN-6186-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrar...

Slackware Linux 15.0 kernel-generic Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2023-172-02)

The version of kernel-generic installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.118 / 5.15.118smp. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2023-172-02 advisory. New kernel packages are available for Slackware 15.0 to fix security issues. Tenable has extracted t...

USN-6175-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrar...

USN-6171-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.19, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities

William Zhao discovered that the Traffic Control TC subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle network packet retransmission in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service kernel deadlock. CVE-2022-4269 It was discovered that the TUN/TAP driver in t...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2152)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of RDMA over infiniband. An attacker with a privileged local account can leak kernel stack...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2152)

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...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2193)

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 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: Security Advisory (USN-6134-1)

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...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities (USN-6134-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6134-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index TCINDEX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform filter deactivation in some...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2020)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of RDMA over infiniband. An attacker with a privileged local account can le...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-6107-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6107-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index TCINDEX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform filter deactivation in some...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel 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 the siz...

kernel: NULL pointer dereference in traffic control subsystem

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in qdiscgraft in net/sched/schapi.c in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local unprivileged user to trigger a denial of service if the allocworkqueue function return is not validated in time of failure, resulting in a system crash or leaked interna...

Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2023-2458)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-2458 advisory. - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function inet6streamops/inet6dgramops of...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-6071-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6071-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index TCINDEX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform filter deactivation in some...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6069-1)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6070-1)

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...