SUSE-SU-2025:20270-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 and 6.1 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2023-52927: netfilter: allow exp not to be removed in nfctfindexpectation bsc1239644. - CVE-2024-26708: mptcp: fix inconsistent state on fastopen race...

USN-7003-4: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when printing xattr debug information. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2024-40902 Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could...

CVE-2024-40980

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dropmonitor: replace spinlock by rawspinlock tracedropcommon is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires a spinlock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spinlocks are sleeping locks in this configuration, which...

CVE-2024-40980

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dropmonitor: replace spinlock by rawspinlock tracedropcommon is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires a spinlock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spinlocks are sleeping locks in this configuration, which...

CVE-2024-40980 drop_monitor: replace spin_lock by raw_spin_lock

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dropmonitor: replace spinlock by rawspinlock tracedropcommon is called with preemption disabled, and it acquires a spinlock. This is problematic for RT kernels because spinlocks are sleeping locks in this configuration, which...

CVE-2024-40980

CVE-2024-40980 concerns the Linux kernel: in drop_monitor, a spin_lock is used inside trace_drop_common() with preemption disabled, which can sleep in RT contexts. The vulnerability arises from acquiring a spin_lock while in a preempt-disabled/RT path, causing a potential sleeping-in-atomic conte...