Linux Kernel Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the kasanpopulatevmalloc function in the mm/kasan/shadow.c module of the address sanitizer for Linux kernel involves mutual locking of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

SUSE CVE-2022-50657

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: mm: add missing memcpy in kasaninit Hi Atish, It seems that the panic is due to the missing memcpy during kasaninit. Could you please check whether this patch is helpful? When doing kasanpopulate, the new allocated...

mm/vmalloc, mm/kasan: respect gfp mask in kasan_populate_vmalloc()

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SUSE CVE-2025-39910

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc, mm/kasan: respect gfp mask in kasanpopulatevmalloc kasanpopulatevmalloc and its helpers ignore the caller's gfpmask and always allocate memory using the hardcoded GFPKERNEL flag. This makes them inconsistent with...

CVE-2025-39910

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc, mm/kasan: respect gfp mask in kasanpopulatevmalloc kasanpopulatevmalloc and its helpers ignore the caller's gfpmask and always allocate memory using the hardcoded GFPKERNEL flag. This makes them inconsistent with...

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 the kasanpopulatevmalloc function not using the gfp mask correctly, which could lead to a deadlock...