CVE-2026-74543

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: udptunnel: fix memory leak in udptunnelnicunregister syzbot reported a memory leak 1 in the UDP tunnel NIC offload code. When device registration fails e.g. in registernetdevice, netdev core unwinds by sending a single...

CVE-2025-39796: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: lapbether: ignore ops-locked netdevs Syzkaller managed to trigger lock dependency in xsknotify via registernetdevice. As discussed in 0, using registernetdevice in the notifiers is problematic so skip adding lapbeth for...

OESA-2024-1618 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: avoid double free in tunfreenetdev Avoid double free in tunfreenetdev by moving the dev-tstats and tun-security allocs to a new ndoinit routine tunnetinit...

Double free

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: avoid double free in tunfreenetdev Avoid double free in tunfreenetdev by moving the dev-tstats and tun-security allocs to a new ndoinit routine tunnetinit that will be called by registernetdevice. ndoinit is paired with the...

CVE-2021-47082

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: avoid double free in tunfreenetdev Avoid double free in tunfreenetdev by moving the dev-tstats and tun-security allocs to a new ndoinit routine tunnetinit that will be called by registernetdevice. ndoinit is paired with the...

CVE-2022-4744

A double-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user registers the device when the registernetdevice function fails NETDEVREGISTER notifier. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

CVE-2022-4744: Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

A double-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user registers the device when the registernetdevice function fails NETDEVREGISTER notifier. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.36.1 - tun: call devgetvalidname before registernetdevice Cong Wang Orabug: 29925557 CVE-2018-7191...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1570) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

Example: The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.180 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted by a remote attacker such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel pani...