CVE-2023-2124

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

CVE-2023-2124

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

CVE-2023-2124

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-2124

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

The vulnerability of the inode_init_owner() function in the fs/inode.c file of the XFS file system’s kernel of the Linux operating system allows a malicious actor to escalate their privileges and gain access to protected information. It can also cause service interruptions.

The vulnerability of the inodeinitowner function in the fs/inode.c file of the XFS file system in the Linux operating system is related to the incorrect setting of access group attributes during file creation. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to enhance their privileges and gai...

CVE-2023-2124

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

CVE-2023-2124

CVE-2023-2124 is an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in the Linux kernel XFS image restore path after failure with a dirty log journal. It can crash a local user or potentially escalate privileges when mounting/correcting a corrupted XFS disk image. Public advisories (e.g., Debian DSA-5448-1 and ...

The vulnerability of the XFS file system in Linux operating systems allows a perpetrator to cause service failures or gain increased privileges.

The vulnerability of the XFS file system in Linux operating systems is related to insufficient control over metadata during the mounting of XFS file system images in the xlogrecoverbufcommitpass2 function within the fs/xfs/xfsbufitemrecover.c module. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an...

Fedora 36 : kernel (2023-00393126a0)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-00393126a0 advisory. The 6.2.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Fedora 37 : kernel (2023-dfd4a6e8f2)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-dfd4a6e8f2 advisory. The 6.2.15 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

SUSE SLES12: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2156-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2156-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2023-1735)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.313-162.533. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1735 advisory. 2023-06-07: CVE-2023-1838 was added to this advisory. A use-after-free flaw was found in vhostnetsetbackend in...

Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-169)

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-169 advisory. An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2023-2124 In the Linux...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2-2023-2027 (ALAS-2023-2027)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.313-235.533. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2027 advisory. A use-after-free flaw was found in vhostnetsetbackend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure with a dirty log journal. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2023-2124 In the Linux...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-017 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-017)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.108-65.141. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-017 advisory. An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's XFS file system in how a user restore...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5884-1)

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...

USN-5884-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities

Kirill Tkhai discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not calculate size correctly when pre-allocating space in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2021-4155 Lee Jones discovered that a use-after-free vulnerabilit...

SUSE CVE-2016-9685

Multiple memory leaks in error paths in fs/xfs/xfsattrlist.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption via crafted XFS filesystem operations...