Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-5)

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-6896-5 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...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-4)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6898-4 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-3)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-3 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-3)

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-6898-3 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-2)

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-6898-2 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

USN-6896-2: 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 Atheros 802.11ac...

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...

CVE-2024-39499

A vulnerability was found in the eventdeliver function in the Linux kernel's VMCI component, where the issue involves a lack of sanitization for the eventdata.event index controlled by user-space, which could lead to speculative information leaks. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either no...

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-39499

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

CVE-2024-39499

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

CVE-2024-39499 vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

CVE-2024-39499

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

CVE-2024-39499

CVE-2024-39499 (Linux kernel, vmci): The vulnerability allows speculative leaks via event_deliver() because user-controlled event_msg->event_data.event was used as an index without sanitization. The fix sanitizes the index to mitigate speculative information leaks. The issue is exploitable loc...

CVE-2024-39499 vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

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, which stems from a speculative information leak in the eventdeliver function of the vmci component...

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...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A...

kernel: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets The vmcidispatchdgs tasklet function calls vmcireaddata which uses waitevent resulting in invalid sleep in an atomic context and therefore potentially in a deadlock. Use threaded irqs t...