CVE-2024-14027

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/xattr: missing fdput in fremovexattr error path In the Linux kernel, the fremovexattr syscall calls fdget to acquire a file reference but returns early without calling fdput when strncpyfromuser fails on the name argument. In...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-14027

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/xattr: missing fdput in fremovexattr error path In the Linux kernel, the fremovexattr syscall calls fdget to acquire a file reference but returns early without calling fdput when strncpyfromuser fails on the name argument. In...

CVE-2024-14027 xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/xattr: missing fdput in fremovexattr error path In the Linux kernel, the fremovexattr syscall calls fdget to acquire a file reference but returns early without calling fdput when strncpyfromuser fails on the name argument. In...

Linux Kernel Security Vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel is the core of the open-source operating system Linux, developed by the Linux Foundation in the United States. There is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which stems from the absence of the fdput call in the fremovexattr error path. This vulnerability could potentiall...