Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: mm/shmem, swap: fixed the soft lockup issue with mTHP swapin. The following soft lockup can be easily reproduced on my test machine using the following command: echo always...

CVE-2024-42243 mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: make MAXPAGECACHEORDER acceptable to xarray Patch series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by xarray", v2. Currently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. More details can be found from t...

CVE-2023-4732

A flaw was found in pfnswapentrytopage in memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw, an attacker with a local user privilege may cause a denial of service problem due to a BUG statement referencing pmdt x. Mitigation A possible workaround is disabling Transparent Hugepage...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6163 / 6164 / 6172)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel has been updated to 3.0.26, which fixes a lot of bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A locking problem in transparent hugepage support could be used by local attackers to potentially crash the host, or via kvm a...