Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: Fixed the issue where hugepmdunshare caused a race condition with GUP-fast. The hugepmdunshare function releases a reference to a page table that might have previously been shared across processes. This could...

polkit: Temporary auth hijacking via PID reuse and non-atomic fork

A vulnerability was found in polkit. When authentication is performed by a non-root user to perform an administrative task, the authentication is temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining access to elevated privileges...