UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57839

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to dopagecachera" This reverts commit 7c877586da3178974a8a94577b6045a48377ff25. Anders and Philippe have reported that recent kernels occasionally hang when used wit...

CVE-2024-57839 Revert "readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to do_page_cache_ra()"

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to dopagecachera" This reverts commit 7c877586da3178974a8a94577b6045a48377ff25. Anders and Philippe have reported that recent kernels occasionally hang when used wit...

CVE-2024-57839

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "readahead: properly shorten readahead when falling back to dopagecachera" This reverts commit 7c877586da3178974a8a94577b6045a48377ff25. Anders and Philippe have reported that recent kernels occasionally hang when used wit...

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 Confidential Computing kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2023-52778: mptcp: deal with large GSO size bsc1224948. CVE-2023-52920: bpf: support non-r10 register spill/fill to/from stack in precision...

PT-2025-3668 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns the exfat component of the Linux kernel, where a new buffer was not zeroed before writing. This could lead to uninitialized data in the page cache being written. The...

kernel: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed

A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux Kernel. In architectures such as ARM64 where the base page size is 64KB, a 512MB page cache could lead to a software crash...

kernel: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel related to how large page caching is handled, particularly for AMD64 architectures. The issue stems from the xarray data structure's inability to support PMD-sized page caches when the base page size is larger than MAXPAGECACHEORDER. The particular...

kernel: mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORDER acceptable to xarray Patch series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by xarray", v2. Currently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. More details can be found from t...

The vulnerability of the f2fs component of the Linux operating system’s kernel, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the f2fs component of the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to damage to the f2fsinitpagearraycache function. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to access confidential information...

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2024-36244: net/sched: taprio: extend minimum interval restriction to entire cycle too bsc1226797. CVE-2024-41031: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cac...

kernel: mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...

SUSE CVE-2024-50229

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Syzbot reported that pagesymlink, called by nilfssymlink, triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among...

AZL-53067 CVE-2024-50229 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.173.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Syzbot reported that pagesymlink, called by nilfssymlink, triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50229

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Syzbot reported that pagesymlink, called by nilfssymlink, triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50229

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Syzbot reported that pagesymlink, called by nilfssymlink, triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among...

CVE-2024-50229 nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential deadlock with newly created symlinks Syzbot reported that pagesymlink, called by nilfssymlink, triggers memory reclamation involving the filesystem layer, which can result in circular lock dependencies among...

CVE-2024-49964 mm/hugetlb: fix memfd_pin_folios free_huge_pages leak

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix memfdpinfolios freehugepages leak memfdpinfolios followed by unpinfolios fails to restore freehugepages if the pages were not already faulted in, because the folio refcount for pages created by memfdallocfolio nev...

CVE-2024-49964

The CVE-2024-49964 issue affects the Linux kernel’s hugetlb path: memfd_pin_folios + unpin_folios could fail to restore free_huge_pages for pages not faulted in due to folio refcounts not reaching zero. The root cause was that folio_ref_unfreeze/folio_try_get/hugetlb_add_to_page_cache interaction...

SUSE CVE-2024-49856

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sgx: Fix deadlock in SGX NUMA node search When the current node doesn't have an EPC section configured by firmware and all other EPC sections are used up, CPU can get stuck inside the while loop that looks for an available EP...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-49856

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sgx: Fix deadlock in SGX NUMA node search When the current node doesn't have an EPC section configured by firmware and all other EPC sections are used up, CPU can get stuck inside the while loop that looks for an available EP...