CVE-2024-40972: Improper Locking

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock ext4xattrsetentry creates new EA inodes while holding buffer lock on the external xattr block. This is problematic as it nests all the allocation locking which acquires locks on othe...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

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 that stems from a failure to properly initialize the lock on the ratelimitstate during initialization of the ext4 filesystem...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-1 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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:2381-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2381-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: -...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities (USN-6892-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6892-1 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...

USN-6866-3: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data state on write operations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 file system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2021-33631 It w...

USN-6866-3 linux-azure vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data state on write operations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 file system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2021-33631 It w...

USN-6892-1: Linux kernel (IBM) 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...

SUSE-SU-2024:2381-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-47103: net: sock: preserve kabi for sock bsc1221010. - CVE-2021-47191: Fix out-of-bound read in respreadcap16 bsc1222866. - CVE-2021-47267: usb: fix...

PT-2024-29854

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.50 Description The issue is related to the ext4 file system in the Linux kernel. It occurs when the do split function is called with only one valid dentry for the block to be split, resulting in out-of-bounds...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix bugon in estreesearch CVE-2022-49409 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix possible NULL dereference in amdgpurasqueryerrorstatushelper CVE-2023-52585 Affect...

PT-2024-29853

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6.50 Description The issue is related to the ext4 component of the Linux kernel, where a directory can be constructed without a dirblock but is non-inline, resulting in the first directory block being a hole...

SUSE-SU-2024:2360-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-47103: net: sock: preserve kabi for sock bsc1221010. - CVE-2021-47191: Fix out-of-bound read in respreadcap16 bsc1222866. - CVE-2021-47267: usb: fix...

PT-2024-7332 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 6.10.0 Description: The issue is related to the ext4 file system in the Linux kernel, specifically with the function ext4 ioctl getlabel in the fs/ext4/ioctl.c module. It involves improper memory access beyond t...

USN-6866-2 linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate data state on write operations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 file system image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2021-33631 It w...

USN-6878-1: Linux kernel (Oracle) 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 Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadc...

USN-6871-1: Linux kernel (HWE) 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6867-1)

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 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6867-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6867-1 advisory. It was discovered that the HugeTLB file system component of the Linux Kernel contained a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. A privileged attacker...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities (USN-6878-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6878-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...