Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-38573

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cppccpufreq: Fix possible null pointer dereference cppccpufreqgetrate and...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7009-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7007-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7007-1 advisory. Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use...

CVE-2024-38573

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cppccpufreq: Fix possible null pointer dereference cppccpufreqgetrate and hisicppccpufreqgetrate can be called from different places with various parameters. So cpufreqcpuget can return null as 'policy' in some circumstances. Fix...