Linux kernel DoS

The vulnerability in the unixreleasesock function within the net/unix/afunix.c component of the Linux kernel operating system is related to an improper thread management implementation. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service...

CVE-2026-72462: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix race in unix socket mediation when peerpath is used The holding a reference to the peersk is not enough to ensure access to the peer sk path. Accessing the path outside of the state lock allows for a race with...

SUSE CVE-2026-45887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix memleak of newsk in unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move preparepeercred before unixcreate1...

CVE-2026-45887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix memleak of newsk in unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move preparepeercred before unixcreate1...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix memleak of newsk in unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move preparepeercred before unixcreate1...

CVE-2023-54226

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races around sk-skshutdown. KCSAN found a data race around sk-skshutdown where unixreleasesock and unixshutdown update it under unixstatelock, OTOH unixpoll and unixdgrampoll read it locklessly. We need to annota...

CVE-2023-54226: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races around sk-skshutdown. KCSAN found a data race around sk-skshutdown where unixreleasesock and unixshutdown update it under unixstatelock, OTOH unixpoll and unixdgrampoll read it locklessly. We need to annota...

CVE-2023-54006: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data-race around unixtotinflight. unixtotinflight is changed under spinlockunixgclock, but unixreleasesock reads it locklessly. Let's use READONCE for unixtotinflight. Note that the writer side was marked by commit...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-990851)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-990851 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been...

Siemens SIMATIC Devices Race Condition (CVE-2024-38596)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg. This plugin only works with Tenable.ot. Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc...

Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

kernel: af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

kernel: af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

kernel: af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

kernel: af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

kernel: af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

CVE-2024-38596

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38596

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

CVE-2024-38596 af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...

CVE-2024-38596 af_unix: Fix data races in unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix data races in unixreleasesock/unixstreamsendmsg A data-race condition has been identified in afunix. In one data path, the write function unixreleasesock atomically writes to sk-skshutdown using WRITEONCE. However, on...