CVE-2014-0049

CVE-2014-0049 affects the Linux kernel up to version 3.13.5 via a buffer overflow in the complete_emulated_mmio path of arch/x86/kvm/x86.c. The flaw allows a guest OS user to trigger an invalid memory copy that can lead to arbitrary code execution on the host. The published fix is in Linux kernel...

CVE-2016-2065

The CVE-2016-2065 entry concerns the MSM QDSP6 audio driver (sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c) in the Linux kernel 3.x, used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices. The flaw arises from incorrect use of a parameters pointer when handling an ioctl...

CVE-2016-4951

CVE-2016-4951 refers to a vulnerability in the Linux kernel (tipc_nl_publ_dump in net/tipc/socket.c) present up to version 4.6. The function does not verify socket existence, allowing a local attacker to trigger a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference that can crash the system, potenti...

CVE-2017-17852

CVE-2017-17852 affects the Linux kernel’s BPF verifier (kernel/bpf/verifier.c) up to version 4.14.8. The root cause is mishandling of 32-bit ALU operations, which can allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly other impact. The connected Nessus entries repeat ...

CVE-2017-17854

CVE-2017-17854 affects the Linux kernel's kernel/bpf/verifier.c, with the vulnerability existing in images up to kernel version 4.14.8. The issue arises from unrestricted integer values used in pointer arithmetic, enabling local users to trigger a denial of service (integer overflow and memory co...

CVE-2021-47039

CVE-2021-47039 entry is rejected and not an active vulnerability entry.

CVE-2021-47207

CVE-2021-47207 (Linux kernel) : A null pointer dereference in ALSA gus handling (snd_gf1_dma_next_block) could occur if the pointer block returned null. The issue is fixed by adding a null check before dereferencing the pointer. Impact per the entry: local attack vector, low privileges required, ...

CVE-2021-47231

CVE-2021-47231 describes a memory leak in the Linux kernel SocketCAN driver (mcba_usb). The issue arises in mcba_usb_start() where 20 usb_coherent buffers are allocated but not freed; callbacks resubmit the URB and disconnect handling doesn’t free or mark URB_FREE_BUFFER for coherent buffers. Thi...

CVE-2021-47301

Summary: CVE-2021-47301 affects the Linux kernel igb/igc driver stack. Root cause: a use-after-free in the reset path where next_to_watch is not cleared while cleaning the TX ring, risking a freed skb being freed again if igb_poll() executes during reset. Impact: potential invalid memory accesses...

CVE-2021-47430

CVE-2021-47430 concerns a Linux kernel issue related to SMAP handling on x86. The vulnerability arises in x86/entry where the OS may warn when AC is active in user mode, even if SMAP is disabled or partially disabled, leading to a conditional warning that could fire on machines that support SMAP ...

CVE-2021-47460

CVE-2021-47460 affects the ocfs2 code path in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability arises during conversion from inline inode data to extents, where the converter zeroed the entire data cluster by touching pages beyond i_size, which writeback may ignore, causing data loss after file growth. A fix ...

CVE-2021-47476

CVE-2021-47476 : In the Linux kernel, the comedi driver for ni_usb6501 exposed a NULL-dereference/overflow risk in command paths due to endpoint-sized USB transfer buffers without proper size checks. Exploitation could occur if a malicious device reports smaller max-packet sizes than expected, af...

CVE-2021-47493

CVE-2021-47493 affects the Linux kernel OCFS2 subsystem. The issue is a race between ocfs2_test_bg_bit_allocatable() and jbd2_journal_put_journal_head() that can release the journal_head from the buffer_head, when bg_bh->b_private is NULL, leading to a vmcore crash. The described impact in the...

CVE-2021-47555

Summary (supported by provided docs): In the Linux kernel, the VLAN real_dev refcnt underflow was fixed. The issue occurred when an error was injected before dev_hold(real_dev) in register_vlan_dev(), causing the real_dev refcount to underflow and triggering a warning and an endless wait-loop dur...

CVE-2021-47600

The CVE-2021-47600 entry concerns a Linux kernel vulnerability in the dm btree code where a use-after-free occurs during rebalance_children. The root cause is described as a use-after-free in the btree remove path, with the fix specified as moving dm_tm_unlock() after dm_tm_dec(). The vulnerabili...

CVE-2021-47612

CVE-2021-47612 (Linux kernel) — A vulnerability in nf cGenl dump paths can cause a null-pointer dereference and kernel crash when kmalloc in nfc_genl_dump_devices() fails, leading to a segfault in nfc_genl_dump_devices_done and related netlink/worker threads. The issue is fixed in the Linux kerne...

CVE-2021-47641

CVE-2021-47641 (Linux kernel) affects the video fbdev Cirrus driver (cirrusfb) within the kernel’s fbdev subsystem. The issue arises in cirrusfb_check_pixclock when pixclock can be zero, causing a divide by zero that Syzkaller reported. The driver then rounds up pixclock to approximate maxclock, ...

CVE-2022-0646

The CVE-2022-0646 issue affects the Linux kernel MCTP subsystem, caused by a use-after-free in the code path involving cancel_work_sync after unregister_netdev during device removal. It targets Linux Kernel 5.17-rc1 through 5.17-rc5, enabling a local attacker to crash the system or escalate privi...

CVE-2022-48634

Summary of CVE-2022-48634 (Linux kernel) : Affects the gma500/GPU path in the Linux kernel. The fault was that gma_crtc_page_flip() held the event_lock spinlock while calling crtc_funcs->mode_set_base(), which takes ww_mutex, creating a sleeping context in an invalid path. The unlock should oc...

CVE-2022-48744

In CVE-2022-48744, the Linux kernel net/mlx5e driver was made resilient to field-bound checking by avoiding a field-overflowing memcpy() across neighboring fields. The root cause involved copying MLX5E_XDP_MIN_INLINE bytes into a 2-byte inline_hdr.start, causing writes to adjacent data (vlan_tci,...

CVE-2022-48887

CVE-2022-48887 affects the Linux kernel DRM vmwgfx driver. User-resource lookups previously used RCU paths, which were buggy and could crash when command buffers were submitted from two threads. The fix replaces the RCU-based lookups with a regular spin lock to remove races in accesses to shared ...

CVE-2022-48954

CVE-2022-48954 refers to a use-after-free in s390/qeth HSci path, where KASAN observed dereference of a freed br2dev_event_work object in qeth_l2_br2dev_worker. Multiple vendor advisories (SUSE SUSE-SU-2024:4131-1, SUSE-SU-2024:4364-1 and OSV entries) summarize the issue and list the affected com...

CVE-2022-49065

The CVE-2022-49065 entry relates to the Linux kernel SUNRPC tracing: a NULL dereference crash when a sunrpc svc_rqst is deferred while tracing is enabled. The fix targets the trace class svc_deferred_event by avoiding reliance on a NULL dr->xprt and instead converting the remote address to a p...

CVE-2022-49102

CVE-2022-49102 affects the Linux kernel. The issue, resolved by a patch from habanalabs, fixes a memory leak in the MMU DR finalization path when the host-resident shadow is NULL, which can occur because the DR and HR are not dependent. The patch addresses a copy-paste error and prevents the leak...

CVE-2022-49216

In CVE-2022-49216, the Linux kernel drift/tegra code suffered a reference leak in tegra_dsi_ganged_probe caused by a reference from of_find_device_by_node() not being released. The fix adds a put_device() to release the reference when it is no longer needed. Affected component: drm/tegra within L...

CVE-2022-49284

The CVE-2022-49284 entry affects the Linux kernel coresight subsystem (syscfg: cscfg_create_device). The issue is a memory leak on registration failure caused by improper error handling in device_register() after device_initialize(); the recommended fix is to use put_device() to relinquish the re...

CVE-2022-49336

The CVE-2022-49336 entry documents a Linux kernel issue in drm/etnaviv where etnaviv_iommu_unmap_gem could unmap a mapping twice if it had already been reaped. The root cause is not checking for a reaped mapping before unmapping, which could corrupt involved data structures; the vulnerability lea...

CVE-2022-49422

CVE-2022-49422: Linux kernel dmaengine idxd vulnerability. Root cause: error path in idxd_cdev_register() for alloc_chrdev_region() failures leaks allocated resources. Impact is local with high availability impact as per the CVE entry. Affected context is the idxd driver in the kernel; remediatio...

CVE-2022-49467

CVE-2022-49467 is a Linux kernel issue: a memory‑leak in the DRM MSM driver during mdp5_crtc_cursor_set() caused by incorrect handling in drm_gem_object_lookup/drm_gem_object_get and cursor_bo when msm_gem_get_and_pin_iova fails. Affected components/impact are within the kernel’s DRM subsystem (d...

CVE-2022-49522

CVE-2022-49522 concerns a Linux kernel MMC driver issue (mmc: jz4740) where DMA maps could exceed the DMA engine’s capabilities. The root cause is not a research-level flaw but an inadequate limit on the maximum segment size for DMA data transfers. The fix enforces DMA engine limits on the jz4740...

CVE-2022-49524

CVE-2022-49524 relates to the Linux kernel media driver for cx23885 (pci) where the error path in cx23885_initdev() did not release I2C-related resources when dma_set_mask() failed. The concrete details describe that a failed dma_set_mask() leads to a use-after-free in __process_removed_driver, t...

CVE-2022-49542

Summary: CVE-2022-49542 affects the Linux kernel SCSI lpfc path. The vulnerability arises in logging code: during an attempt to log a TRACE message, the code could take a hard lockup path due to an unsafe lock acquisition sequence. Root cause (as described): the cfg_log_verbose check was performe...

CVE-2022-49544

CVE-2022-49544 affects the Linux kernel IPW2X00 stack. The issue is a potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit() when crypt and crypt->ops could be null. The fix adds null checks before dereferencing these fields. The vulnerability is local with likely crash/denial impact; exploitation status...

CVE-2022-49569

CVE-2022-49569 affects the bcm2835 SPI driver in the Linux kernel. When an IRQ-based transfer times out, bcm2835_spi_handle_err() could dereference ctlr->dma_tx/ctlr->dma_rx if DMA pointers are not set, due to the removal of the dma_pending flag. A fix was implemented to check that ctlr-&gt...

CVE-2022-49667

The CVE-2022-49667 issue is a Linux kernel net bonding use-after-free bug triggered by 802.3ad slave unbind. The flaw occurs when bond_3ad_unbind_slave clears an aggregator while there are still ports referencing freed memory, due to ad_clear_agg being invoked even when the port count in a group ...

CVE-2022-49740

CVE-2022-49740 concerns the Linux kernel brcmfmac driver. The vulnerability arises when the device-provided channel spec count exceeds the allocated list length in brcmf_construct_chaninfo() and brcmf_enable_bw40_2g(), causing slab-out-of-bounds reads. The patch adds bounds checks so these functi...

CVE-2022-49793

CVE-2022-49793 is tied to Linux kernel code fixing a memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init within iio: trigger: sysfs. The issue arises from dev_set_name() allocating memory for the trigger name and not freeing it if device_add() fails; the fix ensures the allocated memory is released by freeing the...

CVE-2022-49882

CVE-2022-49882 concerns the Linux kernel KVM gfn_to_pfn_cache handling. The issue arises when the cache is inactive but refreshed without verifying the active flag, potentially leaving a valid but inactive cache and enabling use-after-free scenarios (e.g., dereferencing NULL kernel pointers or mi...

CVE-2022-50022

CVE-2022-50022 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the md driver (RAID5) that can cause a use-after-free. The issue arises because raid5_release_stripe(sh) drops a reference to sh, but sh is later dereferenced (sh->batch_head) in the same function. The patch fixes this by moving raid5_release_s...

CVE-2022-50151

CVE-2022-50151 concerns a Linux kernel issue in usb: cdns3 where a kmalloc call uses GFP_DMA32 flags when allocating a page for a DMA pool, triggering a warning like “Unexpected gfp: GFP_DMA32” and a corrective log. The root cause is the mixing of GFP_DMA32 with dma_pool_alloc/dma_alloc_coherent ...

CVE-2023-52519

CVE-2023-52519 — Linux kernel (intel-ish-hid) : On Elkhart Lake (EHL) based systems, an Out-of-Band wake service can enable PME wake. The ISH driver must re-enable the ACPI GPE bit on resume to preserve wake capability, but BIOS clears the bit without decrementing the OS GPE reference count, caus...

CVE-2023-52525

CVE-2023-52525 affects the Linux kernel mwifiex wireless driver. The root cause is an out-of-bounds/overshoot check in mwifiex_process_rx_packet; the patch tightens the condition so the code path that accesses RFC1042 headers is skipped when the buffer is too small, allowing packets to be process...

CVE-2023-52799

In Linux kernel, CVE-2023-52799 relates to an array-index-out-of-bounds in the JFS path during dmtree_t searches for free blocks (tp->dm_stree). The fix adds a parameter to dbFindLeaf to determine the dmtree type, enabling an out-of-bounds check and preventing access beyond array bounds. Affec...

CVE-2023-52816

CVE-2023-52816 relates to a Linux kernel flaw in drm/amdkfd where a UBSAN shift out-of-bounds occurs when shifting exponent 255, which is too large for a 64-bit unsigned long during a page-fault/get_user path. Impact is high (local exploitability per CVSS), and the issue is fixed by kernel patche...

CVE-2023-52865

CVE-2023-52865 affects the Linux kernel clk-mt6797 clock-data path. The vulnerability arises from not validating the return value of mtk_alloc_clk_data(), which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. The fix adds a check for the return value to prevent NULL dereference and stabilize clock data...

CVE-2023-53141

CVE-2023-53141 is a Linux kernel vulnerability described in the Unity/Nessus materials. The issue is in ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping() for IPv6 ila (used by netlink): it can generate an empty skb, which would trigger a sanity check. The fix is to return an error code instead of generating an empty...

CVE-2024-27021

In CVE-2024-27021, the Linux kernel r8169 LED handling caused a RTNL-related deadlock on module removal due to binding devm_led_classdev_register() to the netdev. The fix removes device-managed LED functions and ensures led_classdev_unregister() is safe even if registration failed. This mitigates...

CVE-2024-27408

The CVE-2024-27408 issue affects the Linux kernel’s DMA engine (dw-edma) remote setup path. The race stems from the linked list element/pointer not being stored with the eDMA registers; if the doorbell is toggled before the full write of the linked list, a race can occur. The resolution is a patc...

CVE-2024-35977

CVE-2024-35977 : In the Linux kernel, a race in cros_ec_uart caused a NULL pointer dereference in serdev handling when devm_serdev_device_open() was called before serdev->ops were set. The crash path involves the code path that dereferences serdev->ops->receive_buf if serdev is present b...

CVE-2024-35981

CVE-2024-35981 affects Linux kernel virtio_net RSS handling. Root cause: RSS command setup in virtionet may be sent even when the device does not support RSS, causing a zero-length buffer to be passed to QEMU and triggering a kernel loop due to virtqueue/broken device handling. Impact: potential ...