CVE-2021-20261

A race condition was found in the Linux kernels implementation of the floppy disk drive controller driver software. The impact of this issue is lessened by the fact that the default permissions on the floppy device /dev/fd0 are restricted to root. If the permissions on the device have changed the...

CVE-2021-20261

CVE-2021-20261 is a local race-condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel floppy disk drive controller (fd0) driver. The issue’s impact is mitigated by default file permissions on /dev/fd0 being root-only; changes to device permissions can greatly increase risk. The initial description notes a l...

CVE-2021-20261

A race condition was found in the Linux kernels implementation of the floppy disk drive controller driver software. The impact of this issue is lessened by the fact that the default permissions on the floppy device /dev/fd0 are restricted to root. If the permissions on the device have changed the...

CVE-2021-20261

A race condition was found in the Linux kernels implementation of the floppy disk drive controller driver software. The impact of this issue is lessened by the fact that the default permissions on the floppy device /dev/fd0 are restricted to root. If the permissions on the device have changed the...

CVE-2021-20261: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

A race condition was found in the Linux kernels implementation of the floppy disk drive controller driver software. The impact of this issue is lessened by the fact that the default permissions on the floppy device /dev/fd0 are restricted to root. If the permissions on the device have changed the...

CVE-2021-20196

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulti...

PT-2021-7363

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This flaw occurs when processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : kernel-rt Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2020-0043)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has kernel-rt packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - In the Linux kernel before 4.1.4, a buffer overflow occurs when checking userspace params in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c. The maximum...

CVE-2020-25741

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while transferring data via the fdctrlreaddata and fdctrlwritedata routines if the current drive has a null block pointer. This flaw allows a guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resultin...

kernel: integer overflow and OOB read in drivers/block/floppy.c

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s floppy disk driver implementation. A local attacker with access to the floppy device could call setgeometry in drivers/block/floppy.c, which does not validate the sect and head fields, causing an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read. This flaw ma...

CVE-2019-14284

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s floppy disk driver implementation. A local attacker with access to the floppy disk device file /dev/fd0 through to /dev/fdN can create a situation that causes the kernel to divide by zero. This requires two consecutive ioctl calls to be issued. The...

CVE-2019-14283

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s floppy disk driver implementation. A local attacker with access to the floppy device could call setgeometry in drivers/block/floppy.c, which does not validate the sect and head fields, causing an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read. This flaw ma...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-9383

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.5.6. setfdc in drivers/block/floppy.c leads to a waittilready out-of-bounds read because the FDC index is not checked for errors before assigning it, aka CID-2e90ca68b0d2...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4810)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4810 advisory. - tcp: purge write queue in tcpconnectinit Eric Dumazet Orabug: 30240134 CVE-2019-15239 - cx24116: fix a buffer overflow when checking userspace...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1919)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The xfsbmapextentstobtree function in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfsbmap.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2262-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-1125: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations bsc1139358. CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in createqpcommon in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c,...

Debian DLA-1885-1 : linux-4.9 security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-18509 Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the IPv4 multicast routing implementation. A user with the CAPNETADMIN capability in a...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1924)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-1125: Fix Spectre V1 variant memory disclosure by speculation over the SWAPGS instruction bsc1139358. - CVE-2019-10207: A NULL pointer dereference was possible i...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1923-1 Rating: important References: 1051510 1055117 1071995 1083647 1083710 1085030 1086103 1102247 1103991 1103992 1104745 1106061 1109837 1111666 1112374 1114279 1119222 1123959 1127034 1127315...

Debian DLA-1884-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-18509 Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the IPv4 multicast routing implementation. A user with the CAPNETADMIN capability in a...