Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-8428

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 5.5 has a maycreateinsticky use-after-free, which allows local users to cause a denial of service OOPS or possibly obtain...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-4083

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A read-after-free memory flaw was found in the Linux kernel's garbage collection for Unix domain socket file handlers in the way users call close and fget...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-35970

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Clear stale u-oobskb. syzkaller started to report deadlock of unixgclock after commi...

From Chrome renderer code exec to kernel with MSG_OOB

Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project Zero Introduction In early June, I was reviewing a new Linux kernel feature when I learned about the MSGOOB feature supported by stream-oriented UNIX domain sockets. I reviewed the implementation of MSGOOB, and discovered a security bug CVE-2025-38236 affecting...

SUSE CVE-2025-38236

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Don't leave consecutive consumed OOB skbs. Jann Horn reported a use-after-free in unixstreamreadgeneric. The following sequences reproduce the issue: $ python3 from socket import s1, s2 = socketpairAFUNIX, SOCKSTREAM...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38236

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Don't leave consecutive consumed OOB skbs. Jann Horn reported a use-after-free in unixstreamreadgeneric. The following sequences reproduce the issue: $ python3 from socket import s1, s2 = socketpairAFUNIX, SOCKSTREAM...

CVE-2024-8037

Vulnerable juju hook tool abstract UNIX domain socket. When combined with an attack of JUJUCONTEXTID, any user on the local system with access to the default network namespace may connect to the @/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-xxxx-yyyy/agent.socket and perform actions that are normally reserved to a...

CVE-2020-8446

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis ossec-analysisd is vulnerable to path traversal with write access via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user...

SUSE CVE-2017-9232

Juju before 1.25.12, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 uses a UNIX domain socket without setting appropriate permissions, allowing privilege escalation by users on the system to root...

GO-2025-3639 Juju uses a UNIX domain socket without setting appropriate permissions in github.com/juju/juju

Juju uses a UNIX domain socket without setting appropriate permissions in github.com/juju/juju...

Missing Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization due to improper permission settings on a UNIX domain socket. An attacker can gain unauthorized access or perform unauthorized actions by running juju-run 'whoami' which escalates privileges to root level. Remediati...

USN-7383-2 linux-realtime vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Drivers core; - Ublk userspace block driver; -...

USN-7383-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Drivers core; - Ublk userspace block driver; -...

CVE-2022-49344 af_unix: Fix a data-race in unix_dgram_peer_wake_me().

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix a data-race in unixdgrampeerwakeme. unixdgrampoll calls unixdgrampeerwakeme without other's lock held and check if its receive queue is full. Here we need to use unixrecvqfulllockless instead of unixrecvqfull, otherwi...

CVE-2024-27273

IBM AIX's Unix domain AIX 7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1, and VIOS 4.1 datagram socket implementation could potentially expose applications using Unix domain datagram sockets with SOPEERID operation and may lead to privilege escalation. IBM X-Force ID: 284903...

CVE-2024-8038

Vulnerable juju introspection abstract UNIX domain socket. An abstract UNIX domain socket responsible for introspection is available without authentication locally to network namespace users. This enables denial of service attacks...

CLSA-2025-1737023462 samba: Fix of CVE-2023-3961

Fix CVE-2023-3961: fix path traversal vulnerability when processing client pipe names connecting to Unix domain sockets within a private directory...

PT-2025-54579

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Node.js version 24 Description A memory leak exists in Node.js’s OpenSSL integration when converting X.509 certificate fields to UTF-8 without freeing the allocated buffer. Calling socket.getPeerCertificatetrue causes a memory leak for each...

USN-7121-3 linux-oracle vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - ATM...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53091

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Add skisinet and ISICSK check in tlsswhasctxtx/rx As the introduction of the support for vsock and unix sockets in sockmap, tlsswhasctxtx/rx cannot presume the socket passed in must be ISICSK. vsock and afunix sockets have...