Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7003-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7003-1 advisory. It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when printing xattr debug information. A local attacker could us...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7006-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7006-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A...

USN-6999-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the CEC driver driver in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2024-23848 It was discovered that the JFS file system contained an...

USN-6919-1: 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 It was discovered that the ATA over...

USN-6917-1: 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 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6919-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6919-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6917-1)

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-6917-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6896-5)

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-6896-5 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...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-4)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6898-4 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6893-3)

"The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6893-3 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...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-3)

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-6898-3 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6898-2)

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-6898-2 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

USN-6896-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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 attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-6270 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac...

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...

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...

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...

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...

VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) - 'vmci.sys'

/ CVE-2013-1406 exploitation PoC by Artem Shishkin, Positive Research, Positive Technologies, 02-2013 / void stdcall FireShellDWORD dwSomeParam EscalatePrivilegeshProcessToElevate; // Equate the stack and quit the cycle ifndef AMD64 asm pop ebx pop edi push 0xFFFFFFF8 push 0xA010043 endif HANDLE...