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...

SUSE-SU-2024:2463-1 Security update for squashfs

This update for squashfs fixes the following issues: - CVE-2015-4645,CVE-2015-4646: Multiple buffer overflows fixed in squashfs-tools bsc935380 - CVE-2021-40153: Fixed an issue where an attacker might have been able to write a file outside of destination bsc1189936 - CVE-2021-41072: Fixed an issu...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41000

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report: 62.982337 ------------ cut here ------------ 62.985692 cgroup: Invalid name 62.986211...

CVE-2024-40972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock ext4xattrsetentry creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the allocation locking which acquires locks on othe...

CVE-2024-40925

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush Friedrich Weber reported a kernel crash problem and bisected to commit 81ada09cc25e "blk-flush: reuse rq queuelist in flush state machine". The root cause is that we use...

CVE-2024-40925

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush Friedrich Weber reported a kernel crash problem and bisected to commit 81ada09cc25e "blk-flush: reuse rq queuelist in flush state machine". The root cause is that we use...

CVE-2024-40972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock ext4xattrsetentry creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the allocation locking which acquires locks on othe...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40925

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush Friedrich Weber reported a kernel crash problem and bisected to commit 81ada09cc25e "blk-flush: reuse rq queuelist in flush state machine". The root cause is that we use...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-39496

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free due to race with dev replace While loading a zone's info during creation of a block group, we can race with a device replace operation and then trigger a use-after-free on the device that was just...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41000

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report: 62.982337 ------------ cut here ------------ 62.985692 cgroup: Invalid name 62.986211...

CVE-2024-41000 block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report: 62.982337 ------------ cut here ------------ 62.985692 cgroup: Invalid name 62.986211...

CVE-2024-41000

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report: 62.982337 ------------ cut here ------------ 62.985692 cgroup: Invalid name 62.986211...

CVE-2024-40972

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock ext4xattrsetentry creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the allocation locking which acquires locks on othe...

CVE-2024-40972 ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock ext4xattrsetentry creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the allocation locking which acquires locks on othe...

CVE-2024-40955 ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_mb_find_good_group_avg_frag_lists()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ext4mbfindgoodgroupavgfraglists We can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds with the following commands: mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/$disk 10G mount /dev/$disk /tmp/test echo 2147483647...

CVE-2024-40925

CVE-2024-40925 involves the Linux kernel and a fault in block layer MQ flush handling. The root cause was a faulty use of rq->queuelist during PREFLUSH/POSTFLUSH sequences, where list_move_tail(&rq->queuelist, pending) could operate on an uninitialized queue when rq was popped from plug-&gt...

CVE-2024-40925 block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush Friedrich Weber reported a kernel crash problem and bisected to commit 81ada09cc25e "blk-flush: reuse rq queuelist in flush state machine". The root cause is that we use...

CVE-2024-40925 block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush Friedrich Weber reported a kernel crash problem and bisected to commit 81ada09cc25e "blk-flush: reuse rq queuelist in flush state machine". The root cause is that we use...

CVE-2024-40925

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix request.queuelist usage in flush Friedrich Weber reported a kernel crash problem and bisected to commit 81ada09cc25e "blk-flush: reuse rq queuelist in flush state machine". The root cause is that we use...

USN-6895-1: 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 HugeTLB file syst...