USN-6999-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2024-12610)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12610 advisory. - MIPS: Octeon: Add PCIe link status check Dave Kleikamp Orabug: 36947196 CVE-2024-40968 - drm/amdgpu: Fix signedness bug in sdmav40processtrapirq...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

5.4.17-2136.335.4.el8 - mm: memcg/slab: enable kmalloc-cg- caches for x8664. Imran Khan Orabug: 36951041 - printk: add kthread for long-running print Stephen Brennan Orabug: 36456582 - kdb: Use the passed prompt in kdbpositioncursor Douglas Anderson - driver core: Fix ueventshow vs driver detach...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2024-12612)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12612 advisory. 5.4.17-2136.335.4.el8 - mm: memcg/slab: enable kmalloc-cg- caches for x8664. Imran Khan Orabug: 36951041 - printk: add kthread for long-running...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2024-12611)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12611 advisory. - MIPS: Octeon: Add PCIe link status check Dave Kleikamp Orabug: 36952386 CVE-2024-40968 - net: relax socket state check at accept time. Paolo Abeni...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6999-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6999-1 advisory. Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to caus...

SUSE CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

SUSE CVE-2024-40968

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: Octeon: Add PCIe link status check The standard PCIe configuration read-write interface is used to access the configuration space of the peripheral PCIe devices of the mips processor after the PCIe link surprise down, it ca...

CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2024-40968

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: Octeon: Add PCIe link status check The standard PCIe configuration read-write interface is used to access the configuration space of the peripheral PCIe devices of the mips processor after the PCIe link surprise down, it ca...

CVE-2024-40963

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mips: bmips: BCM6358: make sure CBR is correctly set It was discovered that some device have CBR address set to 0 causing kernel panic when archsyncdmaforcpuall is called. This was notice in situation where the system is booted...

CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2022-48845 MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2022-48845 MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2022-48845

CVE-2022-48845 affects the Linux kernel on MIPS SMP builds, where mis-timing of CPU topology map calculation caused smt_mask (cpu_smt_mask) to be empty during sched_core_cpu_starting(). The issue arises after enabling CONFIG_SCHED_CORE (landed around 5.14), leading to a WARN at sched_core_cpu_sta...

CVE-2022-48845 MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

CVE-2022-48845

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: smp: fill in sibling and core maps earlier After enabling CONFIGSCHEDCORE landed during 5.14 cycle, 2-core 2-thread-per-core interAptiv CPS-driven started emitting the following: 0.025698 CPU1 revision is: 0001a120 MIPS...

SUSE CVE-2024-40963

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mips: bmips: BCM6358: make sure CBR is correctly set It was discovered that some device have CBR address set to 0 causing kernel panic when archsyncdmaforcpuall is called. This was notice in situation where the system is booted...