Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmwballoon: A memory leak has been fixed by using debugfslookup. When calling debugfslookup, the result must have dput called upon it; otherwise, a memory leak will occur over time. To simplify things, simply call...

Unity Linux 20.1060a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-014333)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-014333 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-68248

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - vmwballoon: indicate success when effectively deflating during migration When migrating a balloon page, we first deflate the old page to then inflate the new...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68248

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmwballoon: indicate success when effectively deflating during migration When migrating a balloon page, we first deflate the old page to then inflate the new page. However, if inflating the new page succeeded, we effectively...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53279

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak ove...

SUSE CVE-2023-53279

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfslookupandremove...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53279

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfslookupandremove...

CVE-2023-53279

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfslookupandremove...

CVE-2023-53279 misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: vmwballoon: fix memory leak with using debugfslookup When calling debugfslookup the result must have dput called on it, otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just call debugfslookupandremove...

CVE-2023-53279

CVE-2023-53279 concerns a Linux kernel issue in the misc: vmw_balloon path where calling debugfs_lookup() left the result undereferenced (no dput), causing a memory leak over time. The published fixes replace the single-lookup path with debugfs_lookup_and_remove(), which performs the necessary cl...