Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities (USN-5297-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5297-1 advisory. Szymon Heidrich discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict the size of control requests for certa...

USN-5294-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Packet network protocol implementation in the Linux kernel contained a double-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-22600 Szymon Heidrich discovered that the USB Gadget...

USN-5218-1 linux-oem-5.13 vulnerabilities

Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that use huge pages. CVE-2021-4002 It was discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux...

CVE-2021-4202

A use-after-free flaw was found in ncirequest in net/nfc/nci/core.c in NFC Controller Interface NCI in the Linux kernel. This flaw could allow a local attacker with user privileges to cause a data race problem while the device is getting removed, leading to a privilege escalation problem...

CVE-2021-4202

A use-after-free flaw was found in ncirequest in net/nfc/nci/core.c in NFC Controller Interface NCI in the Linux kernel. This flaw could allow a local attacker with user privileges to cause a data race problem while the device is getting removed, leading to a privilege escalation problem...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-4202

A use-after-free flaw was found in ncirequest in net/nfc/nci/core.c in NFC Controller Interface NCI in the Linux kernel. This flaw could allow a local attacker with user privileges to cause a data race problem while the device is getting removed, leading to a privilege escalation problem...