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 a panic during f2fsresizefs...

CVE-2021-46967

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost-vdpa: fix vmflags for virtqueue doorbell mapping The virtqueue doorbell is usually implemented via registeres but we don't provide the necessary vma-flags like VMPFNMAP. This may cause several issues e.g when userspace trie...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46967

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost-vdpa: fix vmflags for virtqueue doorbell mapping The virtqueue doorbell is usually implemented via registeres but we don't provide the necessary vma-flags like VMPFNMAP. This may cause several issues e.g when userspace trie...

CVE-2021-46957

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46957

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...

CVE-2021-46949

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sfc: farch: fix TX queue lookup in TX flush done handling We're starting from a TXQ instance number 'qid', not a TXQ type, so efxgettxqueue is inappropriate and could return NULL, leading to panics...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount...

CVE-2021-46957

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...

Spoofing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

Spoofing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...

CVE-2021-46938

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm rq: fix double free of blkmqtagset in dev remove after table load fails When loading a device-mapper table for a request-based mapped device, and the allocation/initialization of the blkmqtagset for the device fails, a followi...

CVE-2021-46957

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46948

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sfc: farch: fix TX queue lookup in TX event handling We're starting from a TXQ label, not a TXQ type, so efxchannelgettxqueue is inappropriate and could return NULL, leading to panics...

CVE-2021-46961

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3: Do not enable irqs when handling spurious interrups We triggered the following error while running our 4.19 kernel with the pseudo-NMI patches backported to it: 14.816231 ------------ cut here ------------ 14.8162...

CVE-2021-46967

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost-vdpa: fix vmflags for virtqueue doorbell mapping The virtqueue doorbell is usually implemented via registeres but we don't provide the necessary vma-flags like VMPFNMAP. This may cause several issues e.g when userspace trie...

CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46945

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: always panic when errors=panic is specified Before commit 014c9caa29d3 "ext4: make ext4abort use ext4error", the following series of commands would trigger a panic: 1. mount /dev/sda -o ro,errors=panic test 2. mount /dev/sd...

CVE-2021-46967 vhost-vdpa: fix vm_flags for virtqueue doorbell mapping

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost-vdpa: fix vmflags for virtqueue doorbell mapping The virtqueue doorbell is usually implemented via registeres but we don't provide the necessary vma-flags like VMPFNMAP. This may cause several issues e.g when userspace trie...

CVE-2021-46957 riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sys_read traced by kprobe

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sysread traced by kprobe The execution of sysread end up hitting a BUGON in findgetblock after installing kprobe at sysread, the BUG message like the following: 65.708663 ------------...