Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-36881

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6949-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6949-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update...

CVE-2024-36881

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIOUNREGISTER ioctl, not a...

CVE-2024-36881

CVE-2024-36881: Linux kernel mm/userfaultfd vulnerability where wr-protected page table entries (uffd_wp) were not cleared on close(), only on UFFDIO_UNREGISTER. The fix unregisters wr-protect bits during close() as well, eliminating potential leftovers in pgtable entries and preventing WARN repo...

CVE-2024-36881 mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close() for wr-protected ones

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/userfaultfd: reset ptes when close for wr-protected ones Userfaultfd unregister includes a step to remove wr-protect bits from all the relevant pgtable entries, but that only covered an explicit UFFDIOUNREGISTER ioctl, not a...