Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7022-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7022-2 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in...

SUSE CVE-2024-46822

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: acpi: Harden getcpuforacpiid against missing CPU entry In a review discussion of the changes to support vCPU hotplug where a check was added on the GICC being enabled if was online, it was noted that there is need to map...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46832

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: cevt-r4k: Don't call getc0compareint if timer irq is installed This avoids warning: 0.118053 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283 Caused by getc0compareint on secondary CPU. We al...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7003-4)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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-7021-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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-7021-3 linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 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: - GPU drivers; - BTRFS file system; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - BPF subsystem; - Netfilter; - RxRPC...

USN-7021-3: Linux kernel 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: - GPU drivers; - BTRFS file system; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - BPF subsystem; - Netfilter; - RxRPC...

USN-7003-4 linux-raspi vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when printing xattr debug information. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2024-40902 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7003-4)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7003-4 advisory. It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when printing xattr debug information. A local attacker could us...

CVE-2024-45817

The CVE-2024-45817 entry concerns the Xen hypervisor on x86, where deadlock can occur in vlapic_error() when handling errors from the APIC status ring. The description states that error conditions are reported in a status register and that the OS may receive an interrupt for new errors; configuri...

CVE-2024-45817 x86: Deadlock in vlapic_error()

In x86's APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller architecture, error conditions are reported in a status register. Furthermore, the OS can opt to receive an interrupt when a new error occurs. It is possible to configure the error interrupt with an illegal vector, which generates an error...

USN-7009-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7009-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7009-2 advisory. Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to caus...

x86: Deadlock in vlapic_error()

ISSUE DESCRIPTION In x86's APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller architecture, error conditions are reported in a status register. Furthermore, the OS can opt to receive an interrupt when a new error occurs. It is possible to configure the error interrupt with an illegal vector, which...

kernel: KVM: arm64: vgic-v2: Check for non-NULL vCPU in vgic_v2_parse_attr()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic-v2: Check for non-NULL vCPU in vgicv2parseattr vgicv2parseattr is responsible for finding the vCPU that matches the user-provided CPUID, which of course may not be valid. If the ID is invalid, kvmgetvcpubyid...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7021-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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-7021-2: Linux kernel 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: - GPU drivers; - BTRFS file system; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - BPF subsystem; - Netfilter; - RxRPC...

USN-7021-2 linux-ibm-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-xilinx-zynqmp 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: - GPU drivers; - BTRFS file system; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - BPF subsystem; - Netfilter; - RxRPC...

USN-7029-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7007-2)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7007-2 advisory. Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to caus...