CVE-2023-54177

The CVE-2023-54177 issue is a Linux kernel quota warning during dqgrab() path in fault-injection scenarios (dquot_disable) that can arise in quota reconfiguration flows (ext4_remount, reconfigure_super). The root cause is a situation where dquot_flags may lack DQ_ACTIVE_B during dqgrab(), leading...

SUSE CVE-2023-54099

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: Protect reconfiguration of sb read-write from racing writes The reconfigure / remount code takes a lot of effort to protect filesystem's reconfiguration code from racing writes on remounting read-only. However during remounti...

PT-2025-53176

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists in the Linux kernel related to filesystem remounting. Specifically, the code responsible for reconfiguring or remounting filesystems does not adequately protect against...

EUVD-2007-4830

Malware in sbrugna...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2421-1)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

CVE-2014-7975

The doumount function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not require the CAPSYSADMIN capability for doremountsb calls that change the root filesystem to read-only, which allows local users to cause a denial of service loss of writability by making certain unshare system calls...

REVISED quotacheck security fix in rc.M

NOTE: The original advisory quotes a section of the Slackware ChangeLog which had inadvertently reversed the options to quotacheck. The correct option to use is 'm'. A corrected advisory follows: An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in...