DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50217

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free of block device file in btrfsfreeextradevids Mounting btrfs from two images which have the same one fsid and two different devuuids in certain executing order may trigger an UAF for variable...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50217

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free of block device file in btrfsfreeextradevids Mounting btrfs from two images which have the same one fsid and two different devuuids in certain executing order may trigger an UAF for variable...

Privilege Escalation

udev is vulnerable to privilege escalation. It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world-writable block device file for an...

Scientific Linux Security Update : udev on SL5.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world-writable block device file for an existing system block device for example, the...