Testing race conditions with memory access tracing and stack-based delay injection

Posted by Jann Horn Many security bugs are race conditions, where multi-threaded execution has to occur with the right interleaving for a negative effect to appear. This creates challenges for several use cases: Confirming bug candidates that have been discovered manually or through static...

CVE-2026-68176 tracing: Fix mmiotrace possible NULL dereferencing of hiter->dev

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix mmiotrace possible NULL dereferencing of hiter-dev If the mmiopipeopen fails to find a PCI device, the hiter-dev will be assigned to NULL. The mmiotrace read function dereferences the hiter-dev if hiter exists. Chang...

kernel security update

An update is available for kernel. This update affects Rocky Linux 10. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38088

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/powernv/memtrace: Fix out of bounds issue in memtrace mmap memtrace mmap issue has an out of bounds issue. This patch fixes the by checking that the requested mapping region size should stay within the allocated region si...

PT-2025-30784

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A memory leak exists in the ECC engine configuration during spinand cleanup. Memory allocated for the ECC engine configuration is not released, leading to a memory leak. The issue is...

Dynamic Instrumentation Tool Platform: DynamoRIO

Dynamic Instrumentation Tool Platform DynamoRIO is a runtime code manipulation system that supports code transformations on any part of a program, while it executes. DynamoRIO exports an interface for building dynamic tools for a wide variety of uses: program analysis and understanding, profiling...