Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

A flaw was discovered in the pfnswapentrytopage function within the memory management subsystem of the Linux kernel. In this flaw, an attacker with local user privileges may cause a denial-of-service attack due to a BUG statement that references pmdt x...

CVE-2023-54253

The CVE describes a Linux kernel bug in Btrfs relocation: calling set_page_extent_mapped before validating the folio/page can trigger a kernel BUG during relocate_one_page. The fix, as noted in the description, is to move set_page_extent_mapped to after the btrfs_read_folio block so the subpage b...