CVE-2006-6054

The CVE-2006-6054 issue affects the Linux kernel 2.6.x ext2 file system code, where a malformed ext2 stream can cause ext2_check_page to crash due to a length smaller than the minimum, enabling a local denial of service. Several connected advisories indicate this flaw was fixed in kernel updates ...

CVE-2016-9754

CVE-2016-9754 affects the Linux kernel’s ring_buffer_resize in the profiling subsystem, where integer calculations in ring_buffer.c before 4.6.1 allow a local user to gain privileges by writing to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb. The issue is fixed in kernel 4.6.1 and later. Affected pro...

CVE-2006-6058

CVE-2006-6058 affects the Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.24 (including 2.6.18). Local users can cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed minix file stream that triggers an infinite loop in minix_bmap. The issue may involve an integer overflow or signedness error. The documented fix is a ker...

CVE-2007-0958

CVE-2007-0958 : In Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.20, local users can read unreadable binaries by abusing the PT_INTERP interpreter mechanism, triggering a core dump. This is a local-privilege issue; the described impact is to read binaries via core-dump behavior. According to the changelog refere...

CVE-2007-2525

CVE-2007-2525 : Memory leak in the Linux kernel PPPoE socket implementation allows a local user to cause a denial of service by creating a socket with connect and releasing it before PPPIOCGCHAN is initialized. Affected: Linux kernel before 2.6.21-git8. Impact: memory consumption leading to DoS. ...

CVE-2008-3831

The CVE-2008-3831 entry concerns the i915 DRM driver in Linux kernel 2.6.24 (notable on Debian GNU/Linux) and OpenBSD. The root cause is that the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl is not restricted to the DRM master due to the absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl configuration. Th...

CVE-2009-3001

Technical details about CVE-2009-3001 are not provided in the connected documents; the initial description states a kernel infoleak via getsockname on AF_LLC, but no vendor/product/version specifics or fixes are included. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2009-3722

CVE-2009-3722 affects the Linux kernel KVM subsystem, specifically the x86 VMX path where the handle_dr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c does not properly verify the Current Privilege Level before accessing a debug register. This allows a guest OS user to trigger a denial-of-service (trap) on the h...

CVE-2009-3725

CVE-2009-3725 affects the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.31.5 and relates to the connector layer not requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for certain interactions with uvesafb, pohmelfs, dst, or dm, enabling local users to bypass access restrictions and escalate privileges. Public references corroborate a local-pr...

CVE-2010-2071

The CVE-2010-2071 entry corresponds to the Linux kernel issue where the btrfs_xattr_set_acl function in fs/btrfs/acl.c did not verify file ownership before applying ACLs. Affected: Linux kernel 2.6.34 and earlier. Impact: local users can bypass file permissions by setting arbitrary ACLs (demonstr...

CVE-2011-1021

The CVE-2011-1021 entry describes a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel caused by the ACPI debugfs interface. Vulnerable component: drivers/acpi/debugfs.c. Affected software: Linux kernel versions before 3.0. Root-level access is required to write to /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_metho...

CVE-2011-3593

CVE-2011-3593 : The Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is affected by a vulnerability in the VLAN patch within net/8021q/vlan_core.c (vlan_hwaccel_do_receive). This enables remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames. Connected advis...

CVE-2013-3223

The CVE-2013-3223 issue affects the Linux kernel: the ax25_recvmsg function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c does not initialize a certain data structure, allowing local attackers to read sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted recvmsg or recvfrom calls. Affected kernel versions are befor...

CVE-2013-6431

The CVE-2013-6431 issue affects the Linux kernel’s IPv6 routing code: the fib6_add function in net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c fails to encode error codes correctly in versions before 3.11.5, enabling a local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN to trigger a NULL pointer dereference via an IPv6 SIOCADDRT ioctl, causing a ...

CVE-2017-0428

CVE-2017-0428 describes an elevation-of-privilege in the NVIDIA GPU driver that could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code in kernel context on Android devices with Kernel-3.10. The Android entry notes an Android ID (A-32401526) and flags the issue as critical due to pote...

CVE-2019-19378

Technical details are not provided in the connected documents. CVE-2019-19378 is described as a slab-out-of-bounds write in fs/btrfs/raid56.c for Linux kernel 5.0.21 when mounting crafted images; no patch/version specifics or exploit info are present.

CVE-2021-4454

CVE-2021-4454 affects the Linux kernel CAN/J1939 subsystem. In concurrent paths, j1939_session_deactivate() can be invoked with a session ref-count

CVE-2021-47158

The CVE-2021-47158 entry concerns the Linux kernel’s SJA1105 DSA driver (net: dsa: sja1105). The root cause is improper cleanup in sja1105_setup(): if one of the helper calls (sja1105_static_config_load(), sja1105_clocking_setup(), or sja1105_devlink_setup()) fails, memory could leak because the ...

CVE-2021-47256

CVE-2021-47256 stems from a Linux kernel memory_failure fix where a missing wait for page writeback could leave inode i_wb_list in an inconsistent state, triggering a BUG_ON in clear_inode and kernel panic. Connected advisories describe the root cause: after end_page_writeback, inode->i_wb_lis...

CVE-2021-47283

CVE-2021-47283 concerns the Linux kernel where the SFC driver could leak IRQ resources when using legacy IRQs. The issue arises because the flag irqs_hooked was not set during initialization in legacy IRQ mode, causing non-freed interrupt descriptors on module removal. The vulnerability affects t...

CVE-2021-47364

Summary (CVE-2021-47364) The Linux kernel vulnerability in the comedi subsystem affects the 32-bit version of the COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl when CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. The issue is a memory leak in compat_insnlist(): memory was allocated to hold a converted array of struct comedi_insn and only fre...

CVE-2021-47420

CVE-2021-47420 affects the Linux kernel in the DRM/AMDKFD path. The issue is a memory leak: memory allocated for ttm->sg by kmalloc in kfd_mem_dmamap_userptr is not freed in kfd_mem_dmaunmap_userptr. The vulnerability has been resolved by freeing the leaked memory. Connected advisories (Astra ...

CVE-2021-47427

The CVE-2021-47427 issue in the Linux kernel concerns iscsi_task use-after-free during abort handling in the SCSI iscsi path. Root cause: after commit d39df158518c, abort handling added iscsi_get_conn()/iscsi_put_conn() but the code path could goto common cleanup and perform a second put on the i...

CVE-2021-47481

CVE-2021-47481 concerns the Linux kernel RDMA mlx5 path. The connected sources confirm a concrete flaw where the ODP xarray was not initialized when creating an ODP MR, allowing an out-of-bounds/invalid access that triggers a crash (page fault) due to reg_create() setting a desc_size. The fix des...

CVE-2021-47535

CVE-2021-47535 refers to a Linux kernel flaw in drm/msm/a6xx where a6xx_get_gmu_registers() now reads 3 GMU register sets but the destination array was not resized, causing a slab-out-of-bounds write (KASAN) on affected ChromeOS 5.4 kernels. The issue can trigger memory corruption during crashsta...

CVE-2021-47562

Summary (CVE-2021-47562) : In Linux kernel ice driver, a mismatch in XDP/Rx/Tx queue sizing caused by vsi->txq_map being sized to the doubled vsi->alloc_txq could trigger a kernel NULL pointer dereference when ethtool -L configures XDP rings and Rx/Tx counts differ. The root cause is the tx...

CVE-2021-47588

CVE-2021-47588 affects the Linux kernel SIT (IPv6 over SIT) functionality. The vulnerability stems from calling ipip6_dev_free() from sit_init_net(), where ipip6_dev_free is a dev->priv_destructor that has already been invoked by register_netdevice() if an error occurs. The issue arises becaus...

CVE-2021-47610

CVE-2021-47610: In the Linux kernel, a NULL pointer dereference in the DRM MSM GEM submit path (msm_ioctl_gem_submit) could trigger a kernel panic (Oops) and crash the system. The vulnerability arises from dereferencing a NULL in msm_ioctl_gem_submit, leading to a trace via kref_put and drm ioctl...

CVE-2022-2327

CVE-2022-2327 affects the Linux kernel io_uring path: use of work_flags to determine identity for IORING_OP may cause missing types, leading to incorrect reference counts and a double free. The primary public advisory notes the root cause is in the kernel io_uring identity handling and recommends...

CVE-2022-48647

CVE-2022-48647 is a Linux kernel issue in the sfc driver where legacy interrupt TX channel handling used a fixed tx_channel_offset of 1, which is incorrect when efx_sepparate_tx_channels is false. The queues reside in a single channel (index 0) with RX, so the offset should be 0; using 1 can caus...

CVE-2022-48657

CVE-2022-48657 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the arm64 topology code. The root cause is an overflow risk in amu_fie_setup due to cpufreq_get_hw_max_freq() returning the max frequency in kHz as an unsigned int, while freq_inv_set_max_ratio() expects that value in Hz as a 64-bit type. M...

CVE-2022-48668

CVE-2022-48668 relates to the Linux kernel SMB3 implementation. The issue was that collapse range did not discard the affected cached region, risking temporary data corruption of the file during operations (as observed in xfstest generic/031). The fix stabilizes collapse range behavior and also i...

CVE-2022-48756

CVE-2022-48756 relates to the Linux kernel DRM MSM DSI driver. The vulnerability stems from an invalid parameter check in msm_dsi_phy_enable where the function uses the PHY input before validating it, risking a NULL pointer dereference. The fix is to initialize the dev variable after performing t...

CVE-2022-48806

The CVE-2022-48806 issue is confirmed in the Linux kernel under ee1004 EEPROM reads. The root cause was that ee1004_eeprom_read() could read more than the i2c block data limit because i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data_or_emulated() uses an unsigned 8-bit length; if the requested read spanned a 256-by...

CVE-2022-48855

CVE-2022-48855: The connected advisories confirm a Linux kernel SCTP kernel-infoleak fix. The issue arose because r->idiag_expires was not initialized when inet_sctp_diag_fill() invoked inet_diag_msg_common_fill(), enabling a potential 4-byte kernel infoleak via SCTP sockets. The fix requires ...

CVE-2022-48856

CVE-2022-48856 concerns the Linux kernel needing a fix for a refcount leak in the gfar_get_ts_info path used by gianfar/ethtool. The description states that of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with an incremented refcount and that the code must call of_node_put() when done to release...

CVE-2022-48895

CVE-2022-48895 affects the Linux kernel iommu/arm-smmu component, specifically an issue where shutdown unregistration could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the IOMMU path during reboot sequences. The issue was observed in stack traces leading to Oops in interrupt and kernel panic scenarios,...

CVE-2022-48909

The CVE-2022-48909 entry relates to the Linux kernel net/smc subsystem. A connection leak could occur during a sequence where, after initiating a close, a tcp_abort() may discard pending CLC CONFIRM messages in the TCP send buffer, preventing delivery of the connection token and blocking passive ...

CVE-2022-49222

In CVE-2022-49222, the Linux kernel drm/bridge anx7625 EDID reader was vulnerable because edid_pos was stored in a u8, allowing overflow when EDID blocks exceed 256 bytes. The documented fix changes edid_pos to an int to safely read longer EDID blocks. The CVE is categorized with LOCAL attack vec...

CVE-2022-49363

CVE-2022-49363 concerns a vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s F2FS filesystem. Public descriptions and related advisories (Astra Linux, Unity Linux, OSV, NVD, Red Hat, etc.) confirm the root issue: after fuzzing, inode block mappings could become inconsistent with the SIT (Segment Information Tab...

CVE-2022-49540

CVE-2022-49540 refers to a race in the Linux kernel’s RCU Tasks Rude grace-period handling. The issue occurs during boot when multiple CPUs come online and the rcu_tasks_rude_wait_gp() flow calls schedule_on_each_cpu(), which can mis-handle the online cpumask and produce a call trace in __flush_w...

CVE-2022-49571

CVE-2022-49571 : In the Linux kernel, a data-race around reading sysctl_tcp_max_reordering could occur as the value is updated concurrently while being read. The fix adds READ_ONCE() to the readers of sysctl_tcp_max_reordering. Affected/affected-by notices appear in multiple advisories (EulerOS, ...

CVE-2022-49608

CVE-2022-49608 pertains to the Linux kernel pinctrl: ralink subsystem. A allocation failure can make data->domains NULL, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. The described fix adds a null return check after devm_kcalloc and suggests returning -ENOMEM immediately instead of manually freeing d...

CVE-2022-49650

The CVE-2022-49650 entry is a Linux kernel security fix for the dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma path. The root cause described is an unbalanced pm_runtime_get()/pm_runtime_put() when the BAM is controlled remotely, caused by a prior commit; the fix reverts that change and enables pm_runtime in all cases...

CVE-2022-49672

CVE-2022-49672 affects the Linux kernel tun/tun.c: a race can occur during destruction where NAPI objects linked in struct tun_file may be destroyed before the netdev they reference. The vulnerability arises because NAPIs are not deleted when the queue is detached, allowing a race between the tun...

CVE-2022-49686

CVE-2022-49686 affects the Linux kernel USB gadget UVC path (configfs-gadget: uvc) where uvcg_video_pump can double-add a request to the free list, leading to a kernel BUG and panic when an endpoint is disabled and the request is re-queued. The issue is demonstrated by kernel BUG at lib/list_debu...

CVE-2022-49761

CVE-2022-49761 - Linux kernel (btrfs) details Affected: Linux kernel with btrfs subsystem; function run_one_delayed_ref() path in the delayed refs workflow. Root cause/what changed: The patch changes error reporting from btrfs_debug() to btrfs_err(), adds extra context (logical bytenr, num_bytes,...

CVE-2022-49800

CVE-2022-49800 is a Linux kernel issue addressed by multiple advisories. The root cause was a memory-leak in the tracing tests (test_gen_synth_cmd and test_empty_synth_event) where allocated buffers were freed only on failure paths; the fix adds kfree(buf) to ensure no leak. The Nessus/OpenVAS en...

CVE-2022-49918

CVE-2022-49918 concerns the Linux kernel IPVS subsystem. The vulnerability arises from the initialization path in ip_vs_conn_net_init() where failure to create ip_vs_conn or ip_vs_conn_sync files still leaves initialization “successful by default.” As a result, during removal, the proc entries ma...

CVE-2022-49948

CVE-2022-49948 affects the Linux kernel VT subsystem. When changing the console font via ioctl(KDFONTOP), the new font size may exceed the previous screen, potentially making a prior selection fall outside the new viewport and cause out-of-bounds accesses to graphics memory if the selection is re...