Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/intel: Fixed kernel address leaks in the LBR stack. Before Arch LBR gained CPL filtering support, a user-only branch stack could still contain kernel addresses. As a result, kernel branch records might be exposed to user...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1729

A race condition was found the Linux kernel in perfeventopen which can be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. The bug allows to build several exploit primitives such as kernel address information leak, arbitrary execution, etc...