USN-6950-4: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Bluetooth drivers; - Clock framework and...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-6950-4)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6950-4 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in...

USN-6957-1: Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities

Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use this to...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities (USN-6957-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6957-1 advisory. Benedict Schlter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious VC interrupts and...

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-2024-36955

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: intel-sdw-acpi: fix usage of devicegetnamedchildnode The documentation for devicegetnamedchildnode mentions this important point: " The caller is responsible for calling fwnodehandleput on the returned fwnode pointer. ...

CVE-2024-36955 ALSA: hda: intel-sdw-acpi: fix usage of device_get_named_child_node()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: intel-sdw-acpi: fix usage of devicegetnamedchildnode The documentation for devicegetnamedchildnode mentions this important point: " The caller is responsible for calling fwnodehandleput on the returned fwnode pointer. ...

CVE-2024-36955

In CVE-2024-36955, the Linux kernel ALSA: hda: intel-sdw-acpi code had a path using device_get_named_child_node() that could leak a reference if fwnode_handle_put() was not called on the returned fwnode handle. The described fix adds a call to fwnode_handle_put() to prevent a leaked reference, ad...