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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6900-1)
The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6900-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...
CVE-2024-40945
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Return right value in iommusvabinddevice iommusvabinddevice should return either a sva bond handle or an ERRPTR value in error cases. Existing drivers idxd and uacce only check the return value with ISERR. This could...
UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48817
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: ar9331: register the mdiobus under devres As explained in commits: 74b6d7d13307 "net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres" 5135e96a3dd2 "net: dsa: don't allocate the slavemiibus using devres" mdiobusfree wi...
USN-6896-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...
CVE-2022-48775
CVE-2022-48775 concerns a memory leak in the Linux kernel under the hv: vmbus driver: the function kobject_init_and_add() can return an error without releasing the allocated object, leading to a leak. The documented fix is to call kobject_put() when an error occurs, preventing memory retention. T...
USN-6893-2 linux-gke, linux-nvidia vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859 Several security issues we...
USN-6893-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2024-24857, CVE-2024-24858, CVE-2024-24859 Several security issues we...
SUSE CVE-2024-40945
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu: Return right value in iommusvabinddevice iommusvabinddevice should return either a sva bond handle or an ERRPTR value in error cases. Existing drivers idxd and uacce only check the return value with ISERR. This could...
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-2)
"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-2 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-2)
The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6895-2)
The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6895-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...
CVE-2024-39501
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: core: synchronize reallyprobe and devuevent Synchronize the dev-driver usage in reallyprobe and devuevent. These can run in different threads, what can result in the following race condition for dev-driver...
USN-6898-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...
kernel: tty: n_gsm: fix possible out-of-bounds in gsm0_receive()
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ngsm driver, affecting the tty subsystem. It occurs when switching between basic and advanced option modes in GSM multiplexing, leading to potential out-of-bounds memory writes. This happens because certain state variables, like gsm-len and gsm-stat...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-1)
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-6898-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...
How to Make the Provisioning Services Server Client Coexist with Third-party Network Drivers
This article describes how to run the Provisioning Server client on a target device along with third-party network applications that also occupy the network device driver stack. Background In the Windows Driver Model WDM, systems manage a device through a linked stack of layered device drivers. T...
USN-6896-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...
CVE-2024-40916
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/exynos: hdmi: report safe 640x480 mode as a fallback when no EDID found When reading EDID fails and driver reports no modes available, the DRM core adds an artificial 1024x786 mode to the connector. Unfortunately some variant...
CVE-2024-39497
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/shmem-helper: Fix BUGON on mmapPROTWRITE, MAPPRIVATE Lack of check for copy-on-write COW mapping in drmgemshmemmmap allows users to call mmap with PROTWRITE and MAPPRIVATE flag causing a kernel panic due to BUGON in...
