Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: The WARNON message was removed from the ovlverifyarea function. syzbot encountered an assertion issue within the copyupdata loop. It appears that this issue is caused by a lower file whose size is being changed under...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-27069

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: relax WARNON in ovlverifyarea syzbot hit an assertion in copy up data loop which looks like it is the result of a lower file whose size is being changed underneath overlayfs. This type of use case is documented to cause...

kernel: AIO interface didn't use rw_verify_area() for checking mandatory locking on files and size of access

It was found that AIO interface didn't use the proper rwverifyarea helper function with extended functionality, for example, mandatory locking on the file. Also rwverifyarea makes extended checks, for example, that the size of the access doesn't cause overflow of the provided offset limits. This...