CVE-2024-40961

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent possible NULL deref in fib6nhinit syzbot reminds us that in6devget can return NULL. fib6nhinit ip6validategw ip6routechecknh idev idev = in6devgetdev; // can be NULL Oops: general protection fault, probably for...

CVE-2024-40960

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6probe syzbot caught a NULL dereference in rt6probe 1 Bail out if in6devget returns NULL. 1 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cb: 0000 ...

CVE-2024-40905

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix possible race in fib6droppcpufrom syzbot found a race in fib6droppcpufrom 1 If compiler reads more than once ppcpurt, second read could read NULL, if another cpu clears the value in rt6getpcpuroute. Add a READONCE to...

CVE-2022-48785

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48785

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

CVE-2022-48785

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48810

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmr,ip6mr: acquire RTNL before calling ip6mrfreetable on failure path ip6mrfreetable can only be called under RTNL lock. RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c 10367 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5890 at net/core/dev.c:10367...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48785

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

USN-6896-2: Linux kernel 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...

CVE-2022-48785 ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6_get_lladdr()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

CVE-2022-48785

The CVE-2022-48785 issue in the Linux kernel concerns ipv6: mcast path where ipv6_get_lladdr() was switched to __ipv6_get_lladdr(), an RCUnsafe variant, after external locks were removed in mld updates. The description notes this is only safe when idev->lock is held for those code paths, but w...

CVE-2022-48785

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

CVE-2022-48785 ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6_get_lladdr()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

CVE-2022-48785 ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6_get_lladdr()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: mcast: use rcu-safe version of ipv6getlladdr Some time ago 8965779d2c0e "ipv6,mcast: always hold idev-lock before mcalock" switched ipv6getlladdr to ipv6getlladdr, which is rcu-unsafe version. That was OK, because idev-lock...

SUSE CVE-2024-40905

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix possible race in fib6droppcpufrom syzbot found a race in fib6droppcpufrom 1 If compiler reads more than once ppcpurt, second read could read NULL, if another cpu clears the value in rt6getpcpuroute. Add a READONCE to...

SUSE CVE-2024-40960

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6probe syzbot caught a NULL dereference in rt6probe 1 Bail out if in6devget returns NULL. 1 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cb: 0000 ...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-2)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-2 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6895-2)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6895-2 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-6898-1: Linux kernel 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 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

RXSA-2024:4349 Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix operation precedence bug in port timestamping napipoll context CVE-2023-52626 kernel: Bluetooth: Avoid potential use-after-free in hcierrorreset CVE-2024-26801 kernel:...