Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-2 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An...

CVE-2024-39499

A vulnerability was found in the eventdeliver function in the Linux kernel's VMCI component, where the issue involves a lack of sanitization for the eventdata.event index controlled by user-space, which could lead to speculative information leaks. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either no...

USN-6898-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6898-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

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...

DEBIAN-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 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

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...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6896-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ATA over Ethernet AoE driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition, leading to a use-after-free...

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 speculative information leak in the eventdeliver function of the vmci component...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-1)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel when modifying certain settings values through debugfs. A...

kernel: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets The vmcidispatchdgs tasklet function calls vmcireaddata which uses waitevent resulting in invalid sleep in an atomic context and therefore potentially in a deadlock. Use threaded irqs t...

SUSE CVE-2024-35944

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Fix memcpy run-time warning in dgdispatchashost Syzkaller hit 'WARNING in dgdispatchashost' bug. memcpy: detected field-spanning write size 56 of single field "&dginfo-msg" at drivers/misc/vmwvmci/vmcidatagram.c:237 size 24...

CVE-2024-35944

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Fix memcpy run-time warning in dgdispatchashost Syzkaller hit 'WARNING in dgdispatchashost' bug. memcpy: detected field-spanning write size 56 of single field "info-msg" at drivers/misc/vmwvmci/vmcidatagram.c:237 size 24...

CVE-2024-35944

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Fix memcpy run-time warning in dgdispatchashost Syzkaller hit 'WARNING in dgdispatchashost' bug. memcpy: detected field-spanning write size 56 of single field "&dginfo-msg" at drivers/misc/vmwvmci/vmcidatagram.c:237 size 24...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35944

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Fix memcpy run-time warning in dgdispatchashost Syzkaller hit 'WARNING in dgdispatchashost' bug. memcpy: detected field-spanning write size 56 of single field "&dginfo-msg" at drivers/misc/vmwvmci/vmcidatagram.c:237 size 24...

CVE-2024-35944

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Fix memcpy run-time warning in dgdispatchashost Syzkaller hit 'WARNING in dgdispatchashost' bug. memcpy: detected field-spanning write size 56 of single field "&dginfo-msg" at drivers/misc/vmwvmci/vmcidatagram.c:237 size 24...

CVE-2024-35944 VMCI: Fix memcpy() run-time warning in dg_dispatch_as_host()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: VMCI: Fix memcpy run-time warning in dgdispatchashost Syzkaller hit 'WARNING in dgdispatchashost' bug. memcpy: detected field-spanning write size 56 of single field "&dginfo-msg" at drivers/misc/vmwvmci/vmcidatagram.c:237 size 24...