OESA-2021-1279 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: there was a null pointer dereference in llcpsockgetname in net/nfc/llcpsock.c and reproduced it in linux-5.13.0-rc2. An unprivileged user can trigger this bug and cause denial of service. Root Cause After creating an nfc socket,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-33624

In kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, a branch can be mispredicted e.g., because of type confusion and consequently an unprivileged BPF program can read arbitrary memory locations via a side-channel attack, aka CID-9183671af6db...