SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-azure / dlm-kmp-azure / gfs2-kmp-azure / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:4316-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4316-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following securit...

SUSE SLES15: cluster-md-kmp-rt / dlm-kmp-rt / gfs2-kmp-rt / kernel-devel-rt / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were...

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...

RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:6268)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6268 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:6267)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6267 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: kprobes/x86: Use...

CVE-2024-40914

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugememory: don't unpoison hugezerofolio When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1135! invalid opcode: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 9 PID: 137 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted...

CVE-2024-40914

The CVE-2024-40914 entry concerns a Linux kernel memory management issue in mm/huge_memory. The root cause is that HWPoison could be set for huge_zero_folio without increasing the folio refcount, causing unpoison_memory() to decrement the folio’s refcount as if it were hwpoisoned, triggering VM_B...