Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2024-41062: Sync sock recv cb and release bsc1228576. - CVE-2023-52489: Fix race in accessing memorysection-usage bsc1221326. - CVE-2024-43821: Fix a possible...

CVE-2024-41055 mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfnsectionvalid Commit 5ec8e8ea8b77 "mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memorysection-usage" changed pfnsectionvalid to add a READONCE call around "ms-usage" to fix a race with sectiondeactiva...

CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-437.el9

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the kernel-5.14.0-437.el9 build changelog. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memorysection-usage The below...

CVE-2023-52489

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memorysection-usage The below race is observed on a PFN which falls into the device memory region with the system memory configuration where PFN's are such that ZONENORMAL ZONEDEVICE ZONENORMAL...

CVE-2023-52489

CVE-2023-52489 is tied to a Linux kernel race in mm/sparsemem memory sections (memory_section->usage) when PFNs span ZONE_NORMAL, ZONE_DEVICE, ZONE_NORMAL and memory compaction runs. The race occurs between pfn_valid()/pfn_section_valid() and section_deactivate, where ms->usage can be NULL ...

CVE-2023-52489 mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memorysection-usage The below race is observed on a PFN which falls into the device memory region with the system memory configuration where PFN's are such that ZONENORMAL ZONEDEVICE ZONENORMAL...

CVE-2023-52489: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memorysection-usage The below race is observed on a PFN which falls into the device memory region with the system memory configuration where PFN's are such that ZONENORMAL ZONEDEVICE ZONENORMAL...