USN-7173-2: 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 Several security issues were discover...

CVE-2024-25131

A flaw was found in the MustGather.managed.openshift.io Custom Defined Resource CRD of OpenShift Dedicated. A non-privileged user on the cluster can create a MustGather object with a specially crafted file and set the most privileged service account to run the job. This can allow a standard...

Medium: NetworkManager-libreswan

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the libreswan client plugin for NetworkManager NetkworkManager-libreswan, where it fails to properly sanitize the VPN configuration from the local unprivileged user. In this configuration, composed by a key-value format, the plugin fails to escape special...

Medium: vim

Issue Overview: Vim is an improved version of the unix vi text editor. When flushing the typeahead buffer, Vim moves the current position in the typeahead buffer but does not check whether there is enough space left in the buffer to handle the next characters. So this may lead to the tboff positi...

Medium: jetty

Issue Overview: There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's DosFilter which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service DoS attack on the server using DosFilter. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the...

Important: libsoup

Issue Overview: GNOME libsoup before 3.6.0 allows HTTP request smuggling in some configurations because '\0' characters at the end of header names are ignored, i.e., a "Transfer-Encoding\0: chunked" header is treated the same as a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header. CVE-2024-52530 GNOME libsoup...

Medium: glibc

Issue Overview: glibc: null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup cache insertion CVE-2024-33600 Affected Packages: glibc Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories. Issue...

Important: flatpak

Issue Overview: A sandbox escape vulnerability was found in Flatpak due to a symlink-following issue when mounting persistent directories. This flaw allows a local user or attacker to craft a symbolic link that can bypass the intended restrictions, enabling access to and modification of files...

Medium: dovecot

Issue Overview: Dovecot reports: A DoS is possible with a large number of address headers or abnormally large email headers. CVE-2024-23185 Affected Packages: dovecot Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Cor...

Medium: jetty

Issue Overview: There exists a security vulnerability in Jetty's DosFilter which can be exploited by unauthorized users to cause remote denial-of-service DoS attack on the server using DosFilter. By repeatedly sending crafted requests, attackers can trigger OutofMemory errors and exhaust the...

Medium: avahi

Issue Overview: avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port CVE-2024-52615 avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs CVE-2024-52616 Affected Packages: avahi Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference...

Medium: python38-pip

Issue Overview: Requests is a HTTP library. Prior to 2.32.0, when making requests through a Requests Session, if the first request is made with verify=False to disable cert verification, all subsequent requests to the same host will continue to ignore cert verification regardless of changes to th...

Medium: libxml2

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in xmllint from libxml2 before 2.11.8 and 2.12.x before 2.12.7. Formatting error messages with xmllint --htmlout can result in a buffer over-read in xmlHTMLPrintFileContext in xmllint.c. CVE-2024-34459 Affected Packages: libxml2 Note: This advisory is...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: Fix potential context UAFs CVE-2023-52913 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-crypt, dm-verity: disable tasklets CVE-2024-26718 In the Linux kernel, the following...

Important: ghostscript

Issue Overview: PS interpreter - check the type of the Pattern Implementation NOTE: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/showbug.cgi?id=707991 NOTE: https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=f49812186baa7d1362880673408a6fbe8719b4f8 NOTE:...

Low: opensc

Issue Overview: It is caused by the libopensc library in opensc porject. This vulnerability affects how the buffer data is handled and partially filled buffers can be accessed incorrectly when a specially crafted response to APDUs in a USB device or a smart card. CVE-2024-45615 It is caused by th...

Medium: python-pip

Issue Overview: Requests is a HTTP library. Prior to 2.32.0, when making requests through a Requests Session, if the first request is made with verify=False to disable cert verification, all subsequent requests to the same host will continue to ignore cert verification regardless of changes to th...

Medium: apr

Issue Overview: Lax permissions set by the Apache Portable Runtime library on Unix platforms would allow local users read access to named shared memory segments, potentially revealing sensitive application data. This issue does not affect non-Unix platforms, or builds with APRUSESHMEMSHMGET=1 apr...

Medium: gnome-shell

Issue Overview: In GNOME Shell through 45.7, a portal helper can be launched automatically without user confirmation based on network responses provided by an adversary e.g., an adversary who controls the local Wi-Fi network, and subsequently loads untrusted JavaScript code, which may lead to...

Medium: glibc

Issue Overview: glibc: null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup cache insertion CVE-2024-33600 Affected Packages: glibc Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories. Issue...