CVE-2024-44973

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: do not call doslabfree for kfence object In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep inside doslabfree to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice change, but unfortunately it missed one spot ...

CVE-2024-44973 mm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: do not call doslabfree for kfence object In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep inside doslabfree to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice change, but unfortunately it missed one spot ...

CVE-2024-44973

The CVE-2024-44973 vulnerability in the Linux kernel concerns the SLUB allocator when freeing kfence objects. The issue arose because the kfence object free path was moved out of do_slab_free but one spot in __kmem_cache_free_bulk was missed, risking a crash (example stack trace shown in the init...

CVE-2024-44973 mm, slub: do not call do_slab_free for kfence object

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slub: do not call doslabfree for kfence object In 782f8906f805 the freeing of kfence objects was moved from deep inside doslabfree to the wrapper functions outside. This is a nice change, but unfortunately it missed one spot ...

CVE-2024-44965 x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_pgtable() alignment assumption

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Fix pticlonepgtable alignment assumption Guenter reported dodgy crashes on an i386-nosmp build using GCC-11 that had the form of endless traps until entry stack exhaust and then DF from the stack guard. It turned out that...

CVE-2024-44965

CVE-2024-44965 is a Linux kernel vulnerability where pti_clone_pgtable() made alignment assumptions (PMD alignment) on the start address, which is valid on x86_64 but not on i386, causing the end condition to malfunction and potentially a short clone of user mappings. The issue could lead to trap...

CVE-2024-44965 x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_pgtable() alignment assumption

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Fix pticlonepgtable alignment assumption Guenter reported dodgy crashes on an i386-nosmp build using GCC-11 that had the form of endless traps until entry stack exhaust and then DF from the stack guard. It turned out that...

CVE-2024-44965

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Fix pticlonepgtable alignment assumption Guenter reported dodgy crashes on an i386-nosmp build using GCC-11 that had the form of endless traps until entry stack exhaust and then DF from the stack guard. It turned out that...

CVE-2024-44965 x86/mm: Fix pti_clone_pgtable() alignment assumption

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Fix pticlonepgtable alignment assumption Guenter reported dodgy crashes on an i386-nosmp build using GCC-11 that had the form of endless traps until entry stack exhaust and then DF from the stack guard. It turned out that...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt 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 fo...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2024-26929)

The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-26929 advisory. - NIST NVD Details CVE-2024-26929 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only o...

Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2024-5928)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-5928 advisory. - bnxtre: avoid shift undefined behavior in bnxtqpliballocinithwq Kamal Heib RHEL-44287 CVE-2024-38540 - netfilter: flowtable: validate pppoe header...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

CVE-2024-44943

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: gup: stop abusing trygrabfolio A kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when launching SEV virtual machine. The splat looks like: 464.325306 WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313...

RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2024:5928)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5928 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: nftables: nftsetrbtree skip en...

CVE-2024-43888

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: listlru: fix UAF for memory cgroup The memcgroupfromslabobj is supposed to be called under rcu lock or cgroupmutex or others which could prevent returned memcg from being freed. Fix it by adding missing rcu read lock. Found b...

CVE-2022-48897

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/mm: fix incorrect filemapcount for invalid pmd The page table check trigger BUGON unexpectedly when split hugepage: ------------ cut here ------------ kernel BUG at mm/pagetablecheck.c:119! Internal error: Oops - BUG:...

CVE-2022-48897

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/mm: fix incorrect filemapcount for invalid pmd The page table check trigger BUGON unexpectedly when split hugepage: ------------ cut here ------------ kernel BUG at mm/pagetablecheck.c:119! Internal error: Oops - BUG:...

CVE-2022-48897

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/mm: fix incorrect filemapcount for invalid pmd The page table check trigger BUGON unexpectedly when split hugepage: ------------ cut here ------------ kernel BUG at mm/pagetablecheck.c:119! Internal error: Oops - BUG:...

CVE-2022-48897 arm64/mm: fix incorrect file_map_count for invalid pmd

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64/mm: fix incorrect filemapcount for invalid pmd The page table check trigger BUGON unexpectedly when split hugepage: ------------ cut here ------------ kernel BUG at mm/pagetablecheck.c:119! Internal error: Oops - BUG:...