Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: usbtmc: Use usbbulkmsgkillable with user-specified timeouts. The usbtmc driver accepts timeout values specified by the user in an ioctl command, and uses these timeouts for certain usbbulkmsg calls. Since the user can specif...

CVE-2021-47582

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Make doproccontrol and doprocbulk killable The USBDEVFSCONTROL and USBDEVFSBULK ioctls invoke usbstartwaiturb, which contains an uninterruptible wait with a user-specified timeout value. If timeout value is very large...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that originates from a function call to usbstartwaiturb that contains an uninterruptible wait with a user-specified timeout...