CVE-2024-40966

CVE-2024-40966 affects the Linux kernel tty subsystem. The fix adds an option to have a tty reject a new line discipline (ldisc) and limits virtual terminals to N_TTY, preventing con_write() from sleeping while holding a spinlock (which previously could trigger a BUG: sleeping function called fro...

CVE-2021-47383

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit This issue happens when a userspace program does an ioctl FBIOPUTVSCREENINFO passing the fbvarscreeninfo struct containing only the fields xres, yres, and bitsperpixel with values...