Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-47566

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clearuser To clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use clearuser. With a virtio-me...

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:6993)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6993 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: uio: Fix use-after-free in...

SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-47086: phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe bsc1220952. - CVE-2021-47089: kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects bsc1220958. -...

SUSE SLED12: cluster-md-kmp-default / dlm-kmp-default / gfs2-kmp-default / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLEDSAP12 / SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following securi...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:2360-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2360-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

CVE-2021-47566 proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clearuser To clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use clearuser. With a virtio-mem device that registers a vmcorecb and has some logically unplugged...