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...

Spring Tips: Proxies

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the use of JDK and CGLIB-based proxies in Spring, and demystify their application Java SpringBoot SpringFramework Architecture DesignPatterns oop...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6900-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6900-1 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 vulnerability. An...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2022-48795

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Fix data TLB miss in sbaunmapsg Rolf Eike Beer reported the following bug: 1274934.746891 Bad Address null pointer deref?: Code=15 Data TLB miss fault at addr 0000004140000018 1274934.746891 CPU: 3 PID: 5549 Comm: cmake N...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48813

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: felix: don't use devres for mdiobus As explained in commits: 74b6d7d13307 "net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres" 5135e96a3dd2 "net: dsa: don't allocate the slavemiibus using devres" mdiobusfree will pan...

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...

CVE-2022-48795

CVE-2022-48795 maps to a PA-RISC Linux kernel issue: overrunning sglist in sba_unmap_sg caused a Data TLB miss and null-pointer dereference, leading to a kernel panic. The root cause was testing sg_dma_len(sglist) before confirming remaining entries (nents), which could cross a page boundary and ...

USN-6893-2 linux-gke, linux-nvidia vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859 Several security issues we...

USN-6893-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859 Several security issues we...

SUSE CVE-2024-40947

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Avoid blocking in RCU read-side critical section A panic happens in imamatchpolicy: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 PGD 42f873067 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 1 SMP NOPTI CPU: 5 PID: 1286325 Com...

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...

RHEL 8 : git (RHSA-2024:4579)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4579 advisory. Git is a distributed revision control system with a decentralized architecture. As opposed to centralized version control systems with a...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-2 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 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6895-2)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6895-2 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...

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...

Printing with the Mac 10.x ICA Client Explained

This article provides a brief overview of the printing architecture with the 10.x versions of the Mac ICA Client. Background The Mac 10.x ICA Client is a feature-rich client offering. Many of the same features found with Win32 clients/plug-ins. This includes the ability to autocreate all of the...

USN-6896-1: 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...