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-2024-36892

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slub: avoid zeroing outside-object freepointer for single free Commit 284f17ac13fe "mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing separately" splits single and bulk object freeing in two functions slabfree and slabfreebulk...

CVE-2024-36892

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slub: avoid zeroing outside-object freepointer for single free Commit 284f17ac13fe "mm/slub: handle bulk and single object freeing separately" splits single and bulk object freeing in two functions slabfree and slabfreebulk...

CVE-2024-36892

The CVE-2024-36892 issue affects the Linux kernel SLUB allocator. The fix addresses a bug in single-object free: when init_on_free=1, the freepointer inside the freed object could be zeroed (or its handling was unsafe) and, under slub_debug=F and CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED, do_slab_free() coul...