Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6821-2)

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-6821-2 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...

USN-6820-1 linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-xilinx-zynqmp 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...

USN-6820-1: 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...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6816-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6816-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6821-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6821-1 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...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6817-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6817-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47387

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release method to free sugovtunables The struct sugovtunables is protected by the kobject, so we can't free it directly. Otherwise we would get a call trace like this: ODEBUG: free active active...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47313

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppccpufreqcpuinit It's a classic example of memleak, we allocate something, we fail and never free the resources. Make sure we free all resources on policy -init failures...

CVE-2020-36776

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/cpufreqcooling: Fix slab OOB issue Slab OOB issue is scanned by KASAN in cpupowertofreq. If power is limited below the power of OPP0 in EM table, it will cause slab out-of-bound issue with negative array index...

kernel: cpufreq: CPPC: Add u64 casts to avoid overflowing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: CPPC: Add u64 casts to avoid overflowing The fields of the CPC object are unsigned 32-bits values. To avoid overflows while using CPC's values, add 'u64' casts...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating...

RLSA-2023:3847 Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: tls: race condition in dotlsgetsockopt may lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference CVE-2023-28466 For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS score...

kernel security and bug fix update

5.14.0-284.18.12 - cifs: fix wrong unlock before return from cifstreeconnect - docs: Remove the unnecessary unicode character - perf vendor events intel: Refresh ivytown metrics and events - perf vendor events: Update Intel ivytown - perf vendor events intel: Refresh jaketown metrics and events -...

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the perfgroupdetach function of the Linux Kernel Performance Events CVE-2023-2235 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nftables when processing batch...

ALSA-2023:3723 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the perfgroupdetach function of the Linux Kernel Performance Events CVE-2023-2235 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nftables when processing batch...

kernel: cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's cpufreq subsystem. The dbsdata struct, which embeds a kobject, improperly attempts to free the struct using kfree rather than through the proper release method. This issue can lead to a use-after-free scenario, resulting in system instability, memor...

PT-2025-40686

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The issue involves a use-after-free condition within the cpufreq subsystem, specifically related to the davinci platform. The remove function first frees clock resources clks and then...

PT-2021-8249 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a potential memory leak in the cppc cpufreq cpu init component of the Linux kernel. This memory leak occurs when resources are allocated but not freed in case o...

SUSE-SU-2019:2414-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following new features were implemented: - jscSLE-4875: CML New device IDs for CML - jscSLE-7294: Add cpufreq driver for Raspberry Pi - fate321840: Reduce memory required to boot capture kernel while usi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160216)

It was found that the Linux kernel's keys subsystem did not correctly garbage collect uninstantiated keyrings. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2015-7872, Important - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel...