CVE-2024-40962 btrfs: zoned: allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODATASUM writes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODATASUM writes Shin'ichiro reported that when he's running fstests' test-case btrfs/167 on emulated zoned devices, he's seeing the following NULL pointer dereference in...

CVE-2024-40962

CVE-2024-40962 affects the Linux kernel btrfs zoning code. The issue is a NULL pointer dereference in btrfs_zone_finish_endio() when handling zoned NODATASUM writes under zoned emulation for conventional zones. The fix, as described in the disclosure, is to allocate dummy checksums for zoned NODA...

CVE-2024-38540

CVE-2024-38540 concerns the Linux kernel bnxt_re driver. The vulnerability is due to undefined behavior triggered when bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq is called with hwq_attr->aux_depth != 0 and hwq_attr->aux_stride == 0, which causes roundup_pow_of_two(hwq_attr->aux_stride) to run with a 0 va...

Linux: Read /etc/inetd.* and /etc/xinetd.* files

xinetd performs the same function as inetd: it starts programs that provide Internet services. Instead of having such servers started at system initialization time, and be dormant until a connection request arrives, xinetd is the only daemon process started and it listens on all service ports for...