Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: Fixed a issue where a NULL pointer dereference occurred when configuring ‘power’ and ‘submitqueues’. Writing ‘power’ and ‘submitqueues’ concurrently would trigger a kernel panic. Test script: bash modprobe nullblk...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs Make sure to check device queue mode in the nullvalidateconf and return error for NULLQRQ as we don't allow legacy I/O path, without this patch we get OOPs when queue mode is...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: nullblk: fixed handling of poll request timeouts When performing the iouring benchmark on /dev/nullb0, it’s easy for the kernel to crash if poll requests time out, as reported by David. 1 BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereferencing...

USN-8604-1 linux-azure-6.17 vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - Foo-over-UDP FOU; - ARM64 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Drivers...

USN-8604-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - Foo-over-UDP FOU; - ARM64 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Drivers...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities (USN-8296-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8296-1 advisory. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: In the block layer, care should be taken when checking for NULL bdev during polling. Wei reported a crash in an application that uses polled I/O: PGD 14265e067 P4D 14265e067 PUD 47ec50067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 1 SMP CPU: 0 PID: 21915...

SUSE CVE-2026-23032

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items When CONFIGBLKDEVNULLBLKFAULTINJECTION is enabled, the null-blk driver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeoutinject, requeueinject, and...

CVE-2026-23032

The CVE-2026-23032 issue affects the Linux kernel null_blk driver when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION is enabled. Fault-injection configfs items (timeout_inject, requeue_inject, init_hctx_fault_inject) are created as children of the top-level nullbX group, but references to these items a...

CVE-2026-23032 null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items When CONFIGBLKDEVNULLBLKFAULTINJECTION is enabled, the null-blk driver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeoutinject, requeueinject, and...

EUVD-2026-5062

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items When CONFIGBLKDEVNULLBLKFAULTINJECTION is enabled, the null-blk driver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeoutinject, requeueinject, and...

CVE-2026-23032 null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items When CONFIGBLKDEVNULLBLKFAULTINJECTION is enabled, the null-blk driver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeoutinject, requeueinject, and...

PT-2026-5535

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description The Linux kernel contains an issue where references to fault configfs items are not released when a nullbX device is removed, leading to a kernel memory leak kmemleak. This occurs when t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54227

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nrhwqueues Although we don't need to realloc set-tags when shrink nrhwqueues, we need to free them. Or these tags will be leaked. How to reproduce: 1. mount -t configfs configfs /mnt 2. modprobe...

CVE-2023-54227

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nrhwqueues Although we don't need to realloc set-tags when shrink nrhwqueues, we need to free them. Or these tags will be leaked. How to reproduce: 1. mount -t configfs configfs /mnt 2. modprobe...

CVE-2023-54227 blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nr_hw_queues

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix tags leak when shrink nrhwqueues Although we don't need to realloc set-tags when shrink nrhwqueues, we need to free them. Or these tags will be leaked. How to reproduce: 1. mount -t configfs configfs /mnt 2. modprobe...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/groupcpus: Fixed the issue of NULL pointer dereferencing in groupcpusevenly. While testing nullblk with configfs, the command echo 0 pollqueues would trigger the following panic: BUG: NULL pointer dereferencing in the kernel;...

CVE-2023-53576

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs Make sure to check device queue mode in the nullvalidateconf and return error for NULLQRQ as we don't allow legacy I/O path, without this patch we get OOPs when queue mode is...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53531

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nullblk: fix poll request timeout handling When doing iouring benchmark on /dev/nullb0, it's easy to crash the kernel if poll requests timeout triggered, as reported by David. 1 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:...

CVE-2023-53531

CVE-2023-53531 affects the Linux kernel’s null_blk poll timeout handling. The provided details describe a race between null_timeout_rq() and null_poll() that can cause a NULL pointer dereference (address 0x8) and kernel panic during io_uring benchmarks on /dev/nullb0. The root cause is a race in ...