RLSA-2024:4351 Low: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-39499

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

CVE-2024-39499 vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

CVE-2024-39499

CVE-2024-39499 (Linux kernel, vmci): The vulnerability allows speculative leaks via event_deliver() because user-controlled event_msg->event_data.event was used as an index without sanitization. The fix sanitizes the index to mitigate speculative information leaks. The issue is exploitable loc...

CVE-2024-39499 vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in eventdeliver Coverity spotted that eventmsg is controlled by user-space, eventmsg-eventdata.event is passed to eventdeliver and used as an index without sanitization. This...

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, which stems from a crash that can be caused by the use of the sprintf function directly on a user-space pointer when the...

CVE-2024-38559

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qedf: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated Currently, we allocate a count-sized kernel buffer and copy count from userspace to that buffer. Later, we use kstrtouint on this buffer but we don't ensure that the string is...

RLSA-2024:3253 Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

CVE-2023-43545

Memory corruption when more scan frequency list or channels are sent from the user space...

CVE-2023-43545 Integer Overflow or Wraparound in WLAN HOST

Memory corruption when more scan frequency list or channels are sent from the user space...

CVE-2023-43545 Integer Overflow or Wraparound in WLAN HOST

Memory corruption when more scan frequency list or channels are sent from the user space...

CVE-2024-36960

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix invalid reads in fence signaled events Correctly set the length of the drmevent to the size of the structure that's actually used. The length of the drmevent was set to the parent structure instead of to the...

CVE-2024-36961 thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug With the current thermal zone locking arrangement in the debugfs code, user space can open the "mitigations" file for a thermal zone before the zone's debugfs pointe...

SUSE-SU-2024:1895-2 Security update for glibc

This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-33599: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache in nscd bsc1223423 - CVE-2024-33600: Avoid null pointer crashes after notfound response in nscd bsc1223424 - CVE-2024-33600: Do not send missing not-found response in...

SUSE-SU-2024:1895-1 Security update for glibc

This update for glibc fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-33599: Fixed a stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache in nscd bsc1223423 - CVE-2024-33600: Avoid null pointer crashes after notfound response in nscd bsc1223424 - CVE-2024-33600: Do not send missing not-found response in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: rust-scx_rusty-0.5.4-2.fc39

A multi-domain, BPF / user space hybrid scheduler used within schedext, which is a Linux kernel feature which enables implementing kernel thread schedulers in BPF and dynamically loading them. https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/tree/main...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: rust-scx_rustland-0.0.3-2.fc39

A BPF component dispatcher that implements the low level sched-ext functionalities and a user-space counterpart scheduler, written in Rust, that implements the actual scheduling policy. This is used within schedext, which is a Linux kernel feature which enables implementing kernel thread schedule...

CVE-2024-36031 keys: Fix overwrite of key expiration on instantiation

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: keys: Fix overwrite of key expiration on instantiation The expiry time of a key is unconditionally overwritten during instantiation, defaulting to turn it permanent. This causes a problem for DNS resolution as the expiration set ...

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 stems from a failure to ensure that strings are terminated with a null character during copying of user-space data to a...

SUSE CVE-2021-47522

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: bigbenff: prevent null pointer dereference When emulating the device through uhid, there is a chance we don't have output reports and so reportfield is null...