CVE-2024-44962

The CVE affects the Linux kernel Bluetooth btnxpuart driver. Root cause: when unloading btnxpuart, a timer is not reliably shut down, so if the timer is modified during unload it may fire and invoke the timer callback after the driver is gone, causing a kernel panic. The fix is to replace del_tim...

PUB-A-336862373

there is a possible escalation of privilege due to an unusual root cause. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

SUSE CVE-2022-48913

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blktrace: fix use after free for struct blktrace When tracing the whole disk, 'dropped' and 'msg' will be created under 'q-debugfsdir' and 'bt-dir' is NULL, thus blktracefree won't remove those files. What's worse, the following...

CVE-2024-43853 cgroup/cpuset: Prevent UAF in proc_cpuset_show()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup/cpuset: Prevent UAF in proccpusetshow An UAF can happen when /proc/cpuset is read as reported in 1. This can be reproduced by the following methods: 1.add an mdelay1000 before acquiring the cgrouplock In the cgrouppathns...

CVE-2024-42236

In CVE-2024-42236, the Linux kernel vulnerability affects usb: gadget: configfs, specifically usb_string_copy(), where an userspace string with length zero can bypass validation, causing an OOB read (str[0-1] before check) followed by an OOB write (str[0-1] = '\0'). The issue is caused by insuffi...

SUSE CVE-2024-42135

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhosttask: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting Instead of lingering until the device is closed, this has us handle SIGKILL by: 1. marking the worker as killed so we no longer try to use it with new virtqueues and new flus...

CLSA-2024-1722529534 libtiff: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2023-52356: added proper validation and boundary checks to prevent the SEGV and potential heap-buffer overflow - CVE-2023-52355: added functionality to set a maximum possible allocation size in bytes in order to prevent out-of-memory issues when opening a TIFF file and added memory limit...

CVE-2024-42132

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bluetooth/hci: disallow setting handle bigger than HCICONNHANDLEMAX Syzbot hit warning in hciconndel caused by freeing handle that was not allocated using ida allocator. This is caused by handle bigger than HCICONNHANDLEMAX passe...

AZL-54098 CVE-2024-42135 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhosttask: Handle SIGKILL by flushing work and exiting Instead of lingering until the device is closed, this has us handle SIGKILL by: 1. marking the worker as killed so we no longer try to use it with new virtqueues and new flus...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42134

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-pci: Check if isavq is NULL bug In the virtiopcicommon.c function vpdelvqs, vpdev-isavq is involved to determine whether it is admin virtqueue, but this function vpdev-isavq may be empty. For installations, virtiopcilegacy...

CVE-2024-41070 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prevent UAF in kvm_spapr_tce_attach_iommu_group()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prevent UAF in kvmspaprtceattachiommugroup Al reported a possible use-after-free UAF in kvmspaprtceattachiommugroup. It looks up stt from tablefd, but then continues to use it after doing fdput on the returne...

CVE-2024-41038 firmware: cs_dsp: Prevent buffer overrun when processing V2 alg headers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: csdsp: Prevent buffer overrun when processing V2 alg headers Check that all fields of a V2 algorithm header fit into the available firmware data buffer. The wmfw V2 format introduced variable-length strings in the...

CVE-2024-41038 firmware: cs_dsp: Prevent buffer overrun when processing V2 alg headers

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: csdsp: Prevent buffer overrun when processing V2 alg headers Check that all fields of a V2 algorithm header fit into the available firmware data buffer. The wmfw V2 format introduced variable-length strings in the...

kernel: net: core: reject skb_copy(_expand) for fraglist GSO skbs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: core: reject skbcopyexpand for fraglist GSO skbs SKBGSOFRAGLIST skbs must not be linearized, otherwise they become invalid. Return NULL if such an skb is passed to skbcopy or skbcopyexpand, in order to prevent a crash on a...

CVE-2022-48850

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net-sysfs: add check for netdevice being present to speedshow When bringing down the netdevice or system shutdown, a panic can be triggered while accessing the sysfs path because the device is already removed. 755.549084 mlx5core...

SUSE CVE-2024-40922

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iouring/rsrc: don't lock while !TASKRUNNING There is a report of iorsrcrefquiesce locking a mutex while not TASKRUNNING, which is due to forgetting restoring the state back after ioruntaskworksig and attempts to break out of the...

How to Disarm Fencing When Using High Availability in XenServer

This article describes how to disarm High Availability HA and prevent XenServer host from fencing. Disarming HA does not stop HA logging...

CLSA-2024-1720178212 krb5: Fix of CVE-2023-36054

CVE-2023-36054: fix uninitialized pointer in kadmrpcxdr.c to prevent kadmind crash...

CVE-2024-31076 genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline The absence of IRQDMOVEPCNTXT prevents immediate effectiveness of interrupt affinity reconfiguration via procfs. Instead, the change is deferred until the next...

CVE-2024-31076 genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline The absence of IRQDMOVEPCNTXT prevents immediate effectiveness of interrupt affinity reconfiguration via procfs. Instead, the change is deferred until the next...