SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

CVE-2024-40935

CVE-2024-40935 affects the Linux kernel cachefiles subsystem. In ondemand mode, when the cache is marked as CACHEFILES_DEAD, cachefiles_daemon_write() returns -EIO, preventing the daemon from passing the copen to the kernel and causing a hung_task for the waiting process. The fix requires flushin...

CVE-2024-40935 cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILESDEAD In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILESDEAD, the cachefilesdaemonwrite will always return -EIO, so t...