Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2024-4.0-0596

An update of the linux package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-4.0-0596. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

CVE-2024-26587 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.158.1-1

CVE-2024-26587 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.158.1-1. A patched version of the package is available...

CVE-2024-26587 net: netdevsim: don't try to destroy PHC on VFs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netdevsim: don't try to destroy PHC on VFs PHC gets initialized in nsiminitnetdevsim, which is only called if nsimdevportispf. Create a counterpart of nsiminitnetdevsim and move the mockphcdestroy there. This fixes a crash...

CVE-2024-26587

The CVE-2024-26587 issue in Linux kernel netdevsim could crash when destroying a netdevsim with VFs instantiated. The root cause was that PHC gets initialised in nsim_init_netdevsim() (only called for PF ports), but mock_phc_destroy() was not placed there, leading to a NULL pointer dereference du...

CVE-2024-26587

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netdevsim: don't try to destroy PHC on VFs PHC gets initialized in nsiminitnetdevsim, which is only called if nsimdevportispf. Create a counterpart of nsiminitnetdevsim and move the mockphcdestroy there. This fixes a crash...