USN-8545-1 linux-hwe-6.17 vulnerabilities

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - DMA engine subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; -...

The vulnerability of the extract_user_to_sg() function in the lib/scatterlist.c module of the scatterlist library in the Linux operating system allows a attacker to compromise the integrity and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Scatterlist library in Linux operating systems is related to the improper use of the system’s memory management interface. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the integrity and accessibility of the protected information...