Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: nouveau/dmem: handling of kcalloc allocation failures The kcalloc function in nouveaudmemevictchunk will return null if the physical memory runs out. As a result, if we dereference srcpfns, dstpfns, or dmaaddrs, null pointer...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: mm/vmalloc: fixed vmalloc, which may return null if called with GFPNOFAIL. The commit a421ef303008 "mm: allow !GFPKERNEL allocations for kvmalloc" includes support for GFPNOFAIL, but it creates a conflict with the commit...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: lib/testhmm.c: Handling of failures in allocating srcpfns and dstpfns The kcalloc function used in dmirrordeviceevictchunk will return null if the physical memory runs out. As a result, if srcpfns or dstpfns is dereferenced, a...

mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc which may return null if called with __GFP_NOFAIL

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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-39474

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc which may return null if called with GFPNOFAIL commit a421ef303008 "mm: allow !GFPKERNEL allocations for kvmalloc" includes support for GFPNOFAIL, but it presents a conflict with commit dd544141b9eb...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from the fact that vmalloc may return null when using the GFPNOFAIL call...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38543

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/testhmm.c: handle srcpfns and dstpfns allocation failure The kcalloc in dmirrordeviceevictchunk will return null if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if srcpfns or dstpfns is dereferenced, the null pointer...

PT-2024-28065

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A null pointer dereference bug can occur in the Linux kernel when the physical memory runs out, causing the kcalloc function in dmirror device evict chunk to return null. If src pfns or...