Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from an error in the ext4escacheextent method of the ext4 module...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement 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...

USN-6688-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Pratyush Yadav discovered that the Xen network backend implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle zero length data request, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service host domain crash...

CVE-2024-26616

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned BUG There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: - "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info device...

Linux kernel security vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel, which stems from the fact that scrub causes an irreparable failure when ext4 is converted to btrfs...

The vulnerability of the ext4_mbgenerate_buddy() function in the fs/ext4/mballoc.c file of the Linux kernel’s file system ext4 allows a attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the ext4 file system kernel in Linux operating systems is related to the use of memory after it is freed due to competitive access to resources race condition. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility ...

CVE-2024-26616

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned BUG There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: - "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info device...

CVE-2024-26616 btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned BUG There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: - "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info device...

SUSE CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

SUSE CVE-2021-46957

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

Spoofing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46945 ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46946

CVE-2021-46946 is rejected/not used; this CVE ID is not an active vulnerability entry.

CVE-2021-46945

CVE-2021-46945 concerns the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem. The vulnerability causes a kernel panic when the filesystem is mounted with errors=panic, prior to a specific commit. After the patch 014c9caa29d3, remounting a filesystem with abort no longer panics, and the behavior is restored to what i...

CVE-2021-46945 ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...