Moderate: kernel update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation CVE-2023-6240 kernel: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhostnewmsg CVE-2024-0340 kernel: untrusted VMM can...

CVE-2021-47013

CVE-2021-47013 concerns a use-after-free in Linux kernel’s net:emac/emac-mac path, specifically emac_mac_tx_buf_send. The issue arises when emac_tx_fill_tpd() errors cause skb to be freed (dev_kfree_skb(skb)), yet skb->len is still read by netdev_sent_queue(skb->len). The description states...