CVE-2004-0565

CVE-2004-0565 affects Linux 2.4.x kernel code where the MFH bit is checked without verifying the FPH owner in the context switch path. This enables local attackers to read register values of other processes, exposing partial confidentiality. The vulnerability description explicitly states the iss...

CVE-2004-0685

The CVE-2004-0685 issue affects Linux kernel 2.4 USB drivers that use copy_to_user on uninitialized structures, enabling local attackers to read memory not cleared from prior usage and potentially leak sensitive information. The description specifies local/partial impacts on confidentiality and i...

CVE-2005-0209

CVE-2005-0209 is a Linux kernel netfilter fragmentation flaw that allows a remote attacker to crash the system (DoS) by sending crafted IP fragments. Documented impact is a kernel crash via malformed fragments in the netfilter path of Linux 2.6.x (notably 2.6.8.1). Public advisories confirm vulne...

CVE-2005-1762

CVE-2005-1762 affects AMD64 Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10; a ptrace() address verification flaw allows local users to crash the kernel (denial of service). Root cause: inadequate verification of non-canonical addresses in amd64 ptrace. Impact: kernel crash; exploitation requires local access. R...

CVE-2005-2555

CVE-2005-2555 affects the Linux kernel 2.6.x line. The issue is that socket policy access is not properly restricted to users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, potentially allowing local users to perform unauthorized activities. The vulnerability is associated with the IPv4 and IPv6 socket glue ...

CVE-2005-3180

The CVE-2005-3180 issue concerns the Linux kernel Orinoco wireless driver (orinoco.c). In kernels up to 2.6.13 and earlier, memory from a previously used packet is not cleared when the packet length is increased, which can allow a remote attacker to observe sensitive information (information leak...

CVE-2005-3273

CVE-2005-3273 affects the ROSE (rose) packet router ioctl in the Linux kernel (ROSE code in rose_route.c) for 2.6 kernels before 2.6.12 and 2.4 before 2.4.29. The root cause is improper verification of the ndigis argument when creating a new route, which can trigger array out-of-bounds conditions...

CVE-2005-4798

CVE-2005-4798 is a buffer overflow in Linux kernel NFS readlink handling (affecting 2.4 up to 2.4.31). A remote NFS server could crash the NFS client. Debian advisories (DSA-1183-1, DSA-1184-1/2) document this vulnerability within kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8, respectively, and de...

CVE-2006-0742

CVE-2006-0742 affects the Linux kernel on IA-64 (Itanium) where the die_if_kernel function in arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c is compiled with the noreturn attribute. In kernels 2.6.x before 2.6.15.6, this can allow local users to trigger user faults that lead to a denial of service. The root cause ...

CVE-2006-1343

The connected Debian advisory (DSA-1184-2) confirms CVE-2006-1343 as a local information-leak in the Linux 2.6.8 kernel (kernel-source-2.6.8), caused by an information leak in the getsockopt system call that can let a local user leak potentially sensitive memory to userspace. Affected architectur...

CVE-2006-1528

CVE-2006-1528 affects the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.13. The vulnerability arises in the sg (SCSI generic) driver’s handling of memory-mapped I/O space during a dio transfer, allowing a local user to trigger a crash ( Denial of Service ). The connected documents confirm the issue is located in the...

CVE-2006-5174

CVE-2006-5174 concerns the Linux kernel 2.6 copy_from_user() implementation on s390/s390x where a local user could read kernel memory due to improper clearing of a kernel buffer. Affected platform: Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.19-rc1 on s390. The issue is an information leak (partial confidentiali...

CVE-2007-0006

The CVE-2007-0006 issue affects Linux kernels 2.6.9 through 2.6.20 in the key_alloc_serial code, where a fault in the key serial number collision avoidance can be triggered by a local user, leading to a crash via a NULL pointer dereference (local DoS). The vulnerability is documented across multi...

CVE-2007-1217

CVE-2007-1217 affects the ISDN CAPI subsystem in Linux kernel 2.6.9–2.6.20 and isdn4k-utils. A buffer overflow in capiutil.c’s bufprint function could allow a local user to crash the system and potentially gain privileges via a crafted CAPI packet. Exploitation requires ISDN frame access to the t...

CVE-2007-1730

CVE-2007-1730 is a local kernel vulnerability due to an integer signedness error in the DCCP path (do_dccp_getsockopt) affecting Linux kernels 2.6.20 and later. The flaw allows a local user to read kernel memory or trigger a denial of service via a negative optlen. This is confirmed by Red Hat CV...

CVE-2007-1861

CVE-2007-1861 affects the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.20.8. The nl_fib_lookup function in net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c can be triggered by NETLINK_FIB_LOOKUP replies, causing infinite recursion and a stack overflow that leads to a kernel panic (denial of service). Open sources in the connected data conf...

CVE-2007-3107

The CVE-2007-3107 entry concerns a flaw in the Linux kernel signal handling on PowerPC systems using HTX. The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service via floating point corruption and concurrency issues related to clearing MSR bits, as described in the initial document. Connected so...

CVE-2007-3851

CVE-2007-3851 affects the Linux kernel’s i915 DRM path on Intel 965-era chipsets. The flaw lets a local user with access to an X11 session and DRM write to arbitrary memory via a crafted batchbuffer, enabling privilege escalation. The issue is tied to the DRM/i915 driver before kernel 2.6.22.2. P...

CVE-2011-2518

The CVE-2011-2518 entry concerns the Linux kernel code path security/tomoyo/mount.c: tomoyo_mount_acl calls kern_path with arguments from the mount system call. This allows local users to trigger a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly other impact via a NULL device name in kernels before 2.6.39.2...

CVE-2012-6540

CVE-2012-6540 affects the Linux kernel prior to 3.6: do_ip_vs_get_ctl in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c does not initialize a structure for IP_VS_SO_GET_TIMEOUT, enabling local users to read sensitive data from kernel stack memory via a crafted application. Advised fix is upgrading to a kernel wi...

CVE-2012-6541

The CVE-2012-6541 flaw affects the Linux kernel prior to version 3.6. The vulnerability resides in ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt within net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c, where an internal structure is not initialized, enabling local attackers to read sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted ap...

CVE-2013-4516

CVE-2013-4516 affects the Linux kernel: the mp_get_count function in drivers/staging/sb105x/sb_pci_mp.c before 3.12 does not initialize a data structure, enabling local users to read sensitive data from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl. Reports reference the specific vulnerable code pa...

CVE-2014-7284

CVE-2014-7284 affects the Linux kernel’s net_get_random_once in net/core/utils.c for 3.13.x and 3.14.x before 3.14.5 on certain Intel CPUs. The issue is that the slow-path to seed randomness is not executed, increasing predictability of TCP sequence numbers, TCP/UDP port numbers, and IP ID values...

CVE-2015-0572

The CVE-2015-0572 entry concerns the ADSPRPC driver for the Linux kernel (drivers/char/adsprpc.c and drivers/char/adsprpc_compat.c) used in Qualcomm QuIC MSM Android contributions and other devices. The issue is a race condition that can be exploited via the COMPAT_FASTRPC_IOCTL_INVOKE_FD ioctl, ...

CVE-2015-8953

CVE-2015-8953 affects the Linux kernel overlayfs: copy_up.c contains an incorrect cleanup path that leaks dentry references, enabling local DoS via operations on large files in a lower overlayfs layer. Affected component: overlayfs/copy_up.c in the kernel before 4.2.6. Impact: denial of service d...

CVE-2016-2066

CVE-2016-2066 affects the MSM QDSP6 audio driver in the Linux kernel 3.x as used in Qualcomm QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and related products. The issue is an integer signedness error in the msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c path that handles ioctl commands, leading to memory corruption. P...

CVE-2017-0525

CVE-2017-0525 is an elevation-of-privilege issue in the Qualcomm IPA driver on Android, enabling a local attacker to execute code in kernel context. Affected: Android devices using Kernel-3.10 or Kernel-3.18 with the Qualcomm IPA driver. Impact per sources: local privilege escalation requiring pr...

CVE-2017-8106

The CVE-2017-8106 issue affects the Linux kernel (arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c) in versions 3.12–3.15. The vulnerability arises from the handle_invept path, enabling privileged KVM guest OS users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference via a single-context INVEPT with a NULL EPT pointer, causing a denial of ...

CVE-2018-20510

CVE-2018-20510 affects the Linux kernel 4.14.90, where the print_binder_transaction_ilocked function in drivers/android/binder.c can allow a local user to read sensitive address information from a debugfs file by exploiting the *from *code *flags lines. Connected Nessus advisories reiter this exa...

CVE-2021-47127

CVE-2021-47127: The Linux kernel AF_XDP copy-mode Tx regression (introduced by commit that removed xsk_buff_pool from VSI) is fixed by adding a bitmap of zero-copy queues. Each bit corresponds to a queue where an xsk pool is configured; the bitmap is updated in ice_xsk_pool_en/disable and consult...

CVE-2021-47128

CVE-2021-47128 affects the Linux kernel’s SELinux lockdown integration (locked_down LSM hook). The vulnerability stems from buggy SELinux lockdown permission checks in the interaction between bpf/audit pathways and the lockdown checks, which can trigger problematic audit logging and deadlocks. Ex...

CVE-2021-47195

CVE-2021-47195 relates to the Linux kernel SPI subsystem. The issue is a use-after-free caused by unlocking a per-controller mutex (add_lock) after the controller has already been freed during spi_unregister_controller(ctlr) and subsequent put_device flow. The fix moves put_device() after the mut...

CVE-2021-47272

The CVE-2021-47272 item concerns a Linux kernel issue in the DWC3 gadget path. A failure in dwc3_gadget_init() can leave dwc->gadget dangling and lead to dereferencing an invalid gadget pointer or freeing unmapped DMA memory during mode switches peripheral/host. The root cause is an unsafe ref...

CVE-2021-47317

CVE-2021-47317 concerns the Linux kernel’s powerpc/bpf component. A commit changed BPF_XADD to BPF_ATOMIC and introduced a mechanism to distinguish instructions by the immediate field. JITs were updated to enforce that only certain immediates (e.g., BPF_ADD) are allowed, but the powerpc64 JIT che...

CVE-2021-47533

CVE-2021-47533 affects the Linux kernel drm/vc4: kms path. A use-after-free could occur when duplicating state due to a stale HVS FIFO commit pointer not being cleared after waiting on the previous FIFO user. The fix sets the HVS FIFO commit pointer to NULL once the wait completes to prevent carr...

CVE-2022-48639

CVE-2022-48639 involves a refcount leak in Linux kernel net: sched tc_new_tfilter(). The fix requires tfilter_put to release the refcount obtained from tp->ops->get when chain->tmplt_ops is non-NULL and differs from tp->ops. Connected sources confirm the vulnerability exists in the Li...

CVE-2022-48749

CVE-2022-48749 affects the Linux kernel (drm/msm/dpu) where dpu_setup_dspp_pcc performs a check on the ctx parameter but uses it prior to the check. The issue is a potential NULL pointer dereference, mitigated by initializing the base variable after the sanity check. The vulnerability is describe...

CVE-2022-48801

CVE-2022-48801 concerns the Linux kernel IIO subsystem, specifically the IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL path. The issue arises when copying the newly created file descriptor to userland fails; the cleanup attempts use put_unused_fd() for the descriptor that was already published by anon_inode_getfd() vi...

CVE-2022-48815

CVE-2022-48815 affects the Linux kernel bcm_sf2 DSA/MDIO path. The root cause is unsafe interaction between devres-managed mdiobus allocation/registration and manual mdiobus unregistering, where mdiobus_free() may panic if devm_mdiobus_free() triggers devres_release_all() before the bus is unregi...

CVE-2022-48848

CVE-2022-48848 affects the Linux kernel tracing/osnoise workflow. Concrete detail: the issue is caused by unregistering tracepoints twice when stopping tracing (osnoise_workload_stop) and switching tracer to nop, leading to a kernel warning about unregistering an unregistered tracepoint. The conn...

CVE-2022-48913

The CVE-2022-48913 issue is a Linux kernel use-after-free in blk_trace (blktrace) allocated when tracing a full disk, where created files under q->debugfs_dir are not removed if bt->dir is NULL, allowing stale pointers (dropped, msg) to be dereferenced. The result is a KASAN-triggered use-a...

CVE-2022-48940

CVE-2022-48940 affects the Linux kernel’s BPF map handling. When a map value contains both bpf_spin_lock and bpf_timer, copy_map_value fails to set both s_off and t_off, allowing an overwrite and a user-memory crash during copy/updates (as illustrated by the kernel BUG/KASAN trace in the descript...

CVE-2022-48998

CVE-2022-48998 concerns a PowerPC-specific issue in the Linux kernel’s BPF tail-call handling (powerpc/bpf/32). The available connected documents describe a bug where tail calls to BPF programs with differing stack depths could corrupt stack state, leading to an Oops and kernel data access on wri...

CVE-2022-49161

The CVE-2022-49161 entry pertains to the Linux kernel ASoC: mediatek mt8183_da7219_max98357_dev_probe. The vulnerability root cause is a refcount leak caused by not calling of_node_put() in error paths after of_parse_phandle() returns a device_node with incremented refcount. The description indic...

CVE-2022-49210

The CVE-2022-49210 issue is a Linux-kernel memory-leak in the MIPS pgalloc path. The generic pgd_free() freed only one pgd page, but on 64‑bit systems with PAGE_SIZE_4KB and without MIPS_VA_BITS_48 the PGD_TABLE spans two pages; this mismatch leaks memory. MemFree behavior can reveal the leak. Ro...

CVE-2022-49211

CVE-2022-49211 concerns a Linux kernel issue in the MIPS CDMM code path where of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with an incremented refcount and the code omits of_node_put() to release it. The fixed description states: add the missing of_node_put() to release the refcount. Affected...

CVE-2022-49255

CVE-2022-49255 concerns the Linux kernel’s F2FS filesystem. The connected advisories/documentation confirm a root cause: a missing free nid in f2fs_handle_failed_inode, corrected by a patch that fixes xfstests/generic/475 failure. The impact described in the sources includes potential orphan inod...

CVE-2022-49380

The CVE-2022-49380 entry concerns a Linux kernel F2FS bug where total_valid_block_count/total_valid_node_count could fuzz to zero, leading to a BUG_ON() during dec_valid_node_count() in f2fs_remove_inode_page()/f2fs_evict_inode(). The issue was fixed by printing a warning and changing behavior to...

CVE-2022-49937

CVE-2022-49937 affects the Linux kernel mceusb driver in the media subsystem. Automatic fuzzing reported a WARN due to an unusual read on endpoint 0 caused by using legacy usb_control_msg_() routines and not setting USB_DIR_IN in bRequestType. The fix converts the driver to usb_control_msg_recv()...

CVE-2022-49944

CVE-2022-49944 : Linux kernel USB Type-C UCSI code regression caused NULL dereference when reading the power supply sysfs due to a change in error handling after the commit that added ucsi_unregister_connectors(); the stale sysfs entry remained with NULL ops. The fix is a straight revert of that ...