Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

RLSA-2023:0101 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: memory corruption in AX88179178A based USB ethernet device. CVE-2022-2964 kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access CVE-2022-4139 For more details about the...

ALSA-2023:0101 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: memory corruption in AX88179178A based USB ethernet device. CVE-2022-2964 kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access CVE-2022-4139 For more details about the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

There is a use-after-free in kernel versions before 5.5 due to a race condition between the release of ptp_clock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a (high privileged) process allocates a ptp device file (like /dev/ptpX) and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device is removed it can cause an exploitable condition as the process wakes up to terminate and clean all attached files. The system crashes due to the cdev structure being invalid (as already freed) which is pointed to by the inode.

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UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10690

There is a use-after-free in kernel versions before 5.5 due to a race condition between the release of ptpclock and cdev while resource deallocation. When a high privileged process allocates a ptp device file like /dev/ptpX and voluntarily goes to sleep. During this time if the underlying device ...