CVE-2024-42271

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: fix use after free in iucvsockclose iucvseverpath is called from process context and from bh context. iucv-path is used as indicator whether somebody else is taking care of severing the path or it is already removed /...

CVE-2024-42271

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: fix use after free in iucvsockclose iucvseverpath is called from process context and from bh context. iucv-path is used as indicator whether somebody else is taking care of severing the path or it is already removed /...

CVE-2024-42271

CVE-2024-42271 affects the Linux kernel’s IUCV subsystem. The issue is a use-after-free in iucv_sock_close() and iucv_sever_path() caused by a race on severing the path, with iucv_path_sever being called from both process and bh contexts. Without atomic compare-and-swap, a window may exist where ...

CVE-2024-42271 net/iucv: fix use after free in iucv_sock_close()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/iucv: fix use after free in iucvsockclose iucvseverpath is called from process context and from bh context. iucv-path is used as indicator whether somebody else is taking care of severing the path or it is already removed /...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-049 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2024-049)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.156-102.160. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-049 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: fix panic when DSA master...

kernel: mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: swap: fix race between freeswapandcache and swapoff The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26960 to this issue. Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050129-CVE-2024-26960-ad6b@gregkh/T...

kernel: mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: swap: fix race between freeswapandcache and swapoff The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26960 to this issue. Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024050129-CVE-2024-26960-ad6b@gregkh/T...

US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap

Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”...

U.S. Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap

Twenty-four prisoners were freed today in an international prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries. Among the eight Russians repatriated were several convicted cybercriminals. In return, Russia has reportedly released 16 prisoners, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovic...

Magento Sites Targeted with Sneaky Credit Card Skimmer via Swap Files

Threat actors have been observed using swap files in compromised websites to conceal a persistent credit card skimmer and harvest payment information. The sneaky technique, observed by Sucuri on a Magento e-commerce site's checkout page, allowed the malware to survive multiple cleanup attempts, t...

Navigating Insider Risks: Are your Employees Enabling External Threats?

Attacks on your network are often meticulously planned operations launched by sophisticated threats. Sometimes your technical fortifications provide a formidable challenge, and the attack requires assistance from the inside to succeed. For example, in 2022, the FBI issued a warning1 that SIM swap...

The vulnerability of the Fax Service in Windows operating systems allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Fax Service in Windows operating systems is related to pointer swapping errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2022-48800 mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress A soft lockup bug in kcompactd was reported in a private bugzilla with the following visible in dmesg; watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU33 stuck for 26s!...

CVE-2022-48800

CVE-2022-48800 : In the Linux kernel, a soft lockup deadlock was observed involving kcompactd when rescheduling and draining PCP lists during page migration, caused by throttling not making progress. The issue is tied to CONFIG_PREEMPT being disabled (CONFIG_PREEMPT=n) and a task migrating pages ...

RLSA-2024:4211 Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: Bluetooth BR/EDR PIN Pairing procedure is vulnerable to an impersonation attack CVE-2020-26555 kernel: TCP-spoofed ghost ACKs and leak leak initial sequence number...

Rocky Linux 8 : kernel (RLSA-2024:4211)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:4211 advisory. kernel: Bluetooth BR/EDR PIN Pairing procedure is vulnerable to an impersonation attack CVE-2020-26555 kernel: TCP-spoofed ghost ACKs and leak leak...

SUSE CVE-2024-26759

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache When skipping swapcache for SWPSYNCHRONOUSIO, if two or more threads swapin the same entry at the same time, they get different pages A, B. Before one thread T0 finishes the swapin and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40949

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a shmem folio When testing shmem swapin, I encountered the warning below on my machine. The reason is that replacing an old shmem folio with a new one causes memcgroupmigrate...

CVE-2024-40918 parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds PA-RISC systems with PA8800 and PA8900 processors have had problems with random segmentation faults for many years. Systems with earlier processors are much more...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-zram-generator (FEDORA-2024-40ee18b2e7)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...