Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7123-1)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7100-2)

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CVE-2024-40915

A flaw was found in the kernelmappages function in RISC-V in the Linux Kernel, which is incorrectly designed to sleep in atomic contexts. This function cleared the valid bit in page table entries for deallocated pages to detect illegal memory accesses, but it utilized setmemory, which acquires a...

CVE-2024-40915 riscv: rewrite __kernel_map_pages() to fix sleeping in invalid context

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: rewrite kernelmappages to fix sleeping in invalid context kernelmappages is a debug function which clears the valid bit in page table entry for deallocated pages to detect illegal memory accesses to freed pages. This...