CVE-2018-12233

CVE-2018-12233 is a memory-corruption flaw in the Linux kernel’s JFS implementation (fs/jfs/xattr.c) that can be triggered by calling setxattr twice with two different extended attribute names on the same file. The issue stems from an incorrect kmalloc leading to slab-out-of-bounds in jfs_xattr a...

CVE-2018-14609

CVE-2018-14609 affects the Linux kernel (up to 4.17.10) with an invalid pointer dereference in __del_reloc_root() of fs/btrfs/relocation.c when mounting a crafted Btrfs image. The issue is triggered by removing reloc rb_trees when reloc control has not been initialized, leading to potential denia...

CVE-2021-34866

The connected sources confirm CVE-2021-34866 affects Linux Kernel 5.14-rc3. Root cause: improper validation of user-supplied eBPF programs leading to a type confusion condition in the kernel’s eBPF handling. Impact: local privilege escalation and potential arbitrary code execution in kernel conte...

CVE-2021-4001

CVE-2021-4001 is a race condition in the Linux kernel ebpf verifier between bpf_map_update_elem and bpf_map_freeze caused by a missing lock in kernel/bpf/syscall.c. A local user with cap_sys_admin or cap_bpf can modify the frozen mapped address space. The flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.1...

CVE-2022-4696

CVE-2022-4696 is a use-after-free in the Linux kernel’s io_uring subsystem (IORING_OP_SPLICE). If IO_WQ_WORK_FILES is missing, a path including current->nsproxy can lead to reference counter mismanagement and a UAF. Affected component: io_uring/splice paths in kernel 5.10.x. Impact is local: p...

CVE-2022-49541

The CVE-2022-49541 issue is a Linux kernel CIFS vulnerability: a potential double free during a failed mount. It is classed as HIGH severity (LOCAL access, LOW attack complexity) with impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability as per the CVSS metrics. Connected advisories (SUSE/RHEL-r...

CVE-2023-28866

The CVE-2023-28866 issue affects the Linux kernel up to 6.2.8, specifically net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c, where amp_init1[] and amp_init2[] were intended to include an invalid element but do not, enabling out-of-bounds access. The documented CVSS shows Network access with low attack complexity and no...

CVE-2023-52610

CVE-2023-52610 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the net/sched: act_ct path. The issue arises when defragmenting fragments (ooo frag) where skb references are mishandled, leaking skb buffers and potentially crashing the kernel when skb is cloned/shared. The root cause is the previous use of skb_...

CVE-2023-52730

CVE-2023-52730 concerns the Linux kernel mmc_sdio subsystem. The issue arises when sdio_add_func() or sdio_init_func() fail: resources may not be released because the sdio function isn’t present to trigger of_node_put() or put_device(). The patch changes logic so that sdio_func_present() only gat...

CVE-2024-39291

CVE-2024-39291 (Linux kernel) affects the amdgpu path in gfx_v9_4_3.c. The vulnerable code path is gfx_v9_4_3_init_microcode() and related rlc/mec microcode init, where the ucode_prefix buffer was too small, risking truncation when writing strings like amdgpu/%s_rlc.bin or amdgpu/%s_mec.bin with ...

CVE-2024-42094

CVE-2024-42094 affects the Linux kernel where CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y caused explicit cpumask var allocation on the stack in net/iucv to risk stack overflow. The fix is to use the *cpumask_var API(s) to allocate cpumask variables in a config-neutral way, leaving allocation strategy to CONFIG_CP...

CVE-2024-42228

CVE-2024-42228 : Linux kernel vulnerability involving the AMDGPU driver. The issue arises from using an uninitialized value (*size) when calling amdgpu_vce_cs_reloc, which can lead to arbitrary code execution or denial of service via a crafted relocation path. The fix initializes the size prior t...

CVE-2024-50014

CVE-2024-50014 – Linux kernel ext4 replay path issue Affects: Linux kernel ext4 on systems using fast-commit enabled filesystems (replay path). Affected code path is ext4_fc_replay during journal replay; the replay path attempts to lock sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock before it has been initialized. Root ...

CVE-2024-50073

CVE-2024-50073: Linux kernel tty/n_gsm use-after-free in gsm_cleanup_mux (UAF on gsm_msg in gsm_mux tx lists). Unity Linux advisory confirms fix: protect gsm_msg by adding a gsm tx lock to prevent multi-threaded free via ioctl. Affects kernel 6.11.0+; patch details referenced in Unity/Nessus desc...

CVE-2024-50106

The CVE-2024-50106 entry concerns the Linux kernel (nfsd) and describes a race between laundromat handling revoked delegations and a client issuing free_stateid, which can lead to a use-after-free of a delegation stateid if a new open finds a non-empty lease list and dereferences a freed stateid....

CVE-2024-50236

CVE-2024-50236 affects the Linux kernel’s ath10k wireless stack. It describes a memory leak in management TX where MSDU context memory was allocated but not freed on TX completion, with similar leaks in the cleanup path. The fix frees the memory during completion/cleanup and protects the mgmt_tx ...

CVE-2024-53093

In CVE-2024-53093, the Linux kernel vulnerability affects nvme-multipath: partition scanning could deadlock if the partition scan runs inside the controller's scan_work context. The fix defers the partition scan to a non-blocking context to prevent IO stalls when a path error occurs. Affected com...

CVE-2024-53161

CVE-2024-53161 is tied to the Linux kernel EDAC/bluefield issue: the 64-bit get-DIMM-info SMC argument used mem_ctrl_idx left-shifted by 16 and OR’d with the DIMM index; with mem_ctrl_idx treated as 32-bit this can truncate the upper 16 bits, risking data loss. The advisory states the mem_ctrl_id...

CVE-2024-53224

CVE-2024-53224 affects the Linux kernel RDMA mlx5_ib path. The issue stems from a race between device deregistration and pkey change work, fixed by moving the events notifier registration to occur after device registration and by adjusting the stage for pkey change work initialization/cleanup so ...

CVE-2024-56608

CVE-2024-56608 affects the Linux kernel in the AMD display driver (drm/amd/display) where dcn21_link_encoder_create could perform an out-of-bounds access on the link_enc_hpd_regs array. The connected TencentOS NASL notes the issue is present in kernels prior to 5.15.182.1-1 and that a patch updat...

CVE-2024-57979

The CVE-2024-57979 entry is supported by connected documents detailing a Linux kernel use-after-free in pps during device teardown. The root cause is described as pps_device_destruct() freeing the pps_device immediately after cdev_del(), while fops from previously opened cdevs may still be callab...

CVE-2024-58002

CVE-2024-58002 — Linux kernel vulnerability (as reported in Astra Linux bulletin): In media: uvcvideo, an async control writes a pointer to the file handle that started an operation. If the user closes the file descriptor before the device completes, that structure is freed and a dangling pointer...

CVE-2025-21640

Summary (CVE-2025-21640) : In the Linux kernel, the sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg path was fixed to avoid using current->nsproxy. The root cause involved dereferencing current->nsproxy (which can be NULL, e.g., when the task is exiting), leading to an OOPs condition. The patch replaces the ...

CVE-2025-21865

CVE-2025-21865 : In the Linux kernel, a list corruption scenario in gtp_net_exit_batch_rtnl() could trigger double dellink() on the same device when netns cleanup traverses multiple namespaces. The root cause is a for_each_netdev() loop that conflicts with existing netns destruction, enabling a p...

CVE-2025-38001

The CVE-2025-38001 issue is in the Linux kernel HFSC scheduler under net_sched. The vulnerability permits bypassing the patch in hfsc_enqueue (HFSC_RSC path) and allows inserting the same class twice into the eltree, which can lead to a UAF when HFSC is used with NETEM and may cause an infinite l...

CVE-2015-8964

The CVE-2015-8964 entry relates to the Linux kernel prior to 4.5, where the tty_set_termios_ldisc() function in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c can allow local users to read a tty data structure and disclose kernel memory. Evidence in connected documents confirms the affected component (tty_ldisc.c), the...

CVE-2017-1000370

CVE-2017-1000370 affects the Linux kernel (4.11.5 and earlier) on i386. The offset2lib patch vulnerability lets a PIE binary be execve’d with an enormous 1 GB argument/environment list, causing the stack to occupy 0x80000000 and the PIE binary to be mapped above 0x40000000, bypassing the patch’s ...

CVE-2017-14340

CVE-2017-14340 affects the Linux kernel prior to 4.13.2. The XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE macro in fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h does not verify that a filesystem has a realtime device, enabling a local user to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and OOPS when setting the RHINHERIT flag on a directory. The issue re...

CVE-2019-19037

CVE-2019-19037 affects the Linux kernel ext4 implementation: ext4_empty_dir in fs/ext4/namei.c up to kernel 5.3.12 can trigger a NULL pointer dereference when ext4_read_dirblock(inode,0,DIRENT_HTREE) evaluates to zero. Connected Nessus advisories (Unity Linux UTSA-2026-003782/003750/001396) echo ...

CVE-2021-4135

CVE-2021-4135 affects the Linux kernel, specifically the netdevsim (Simulated networking device) driver’s eBPF path. The issue is a memory leak in the nsim_map_alloc_elem path that can be triggered by user-controlled use of BPF for the device, enabling a local attacker to access kernel data. Publ...

CVE-2022-48701

The CVE-2022-48701 issue is in the Linux kernel ALSA usb-audio driver: an out-of-bounds read can occur in __snd_usb_parse_audio_interface() when parsing a USB device (USB ID 0x04fa:0x4201) that has fewer than 4 interfaces. The fix is to validate the interface count before parsing. Public referenc...

CVE-2022-49114

The CVE-2022-49114 issue in the Linux kernel concerns a use-after-free in the SCSI/libfc path, specifically fc_exch_abts_resp(). The bug arises because fc_exch_release(ep) reduces the ep’s refcount to zero while ep is still used, leading to use-after-free. The fix is to Return after the fc_exch_r...

CVE-2022-49273

CVE-2022-49273: In the Linux kernel rtc/pl031 code, clearing the RTC_FEATURE_ALARM bit was performed before ldata->rtc is allocated, risking a null pointer dereference when there is no interrupt line. The fix is to clear RTC_FEATURE_ALARM after the rtc device is allocated. Public advisories (S...

CVE-2023-52528

CVE-2023-52528 is a Linux kernel USB networking issue in the smsC75xx driver. The bug caused an uninitialized read in __smsc75xx_read_reg during the bind/probe sequence, leading to a potential uninit-value access in the smsc75xx_wait_ready path when binding the device. The deduced root cause is u...

CVE-2024-1085

CVE-2024-1085 is a Linux kernel nf_tables use-after-free vulnerability that can enable local privilege escalation. The issue stems from nft_setelem_catchall_deactivate() freeing a catch-all set element based on the current generation, while it is only marked inactive for the next generation, allo...

CVE-2024-24858

CVE-2024-24858 describes a race condition in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth code (net/bluetooth) specifically in {conn,adv}_{min,max}_interval_set() that can cause I2cap connection or broadcast abnormalities, potentially leading to a denial of service. The Astra Linux security bulletin also referen...

CVE-2024-26899

CVE-2024-26899 — Linux kernel deadlock fix details : Affected component is the block layer in the Linux kernel. The issue arises when bd_link_disk_holder() uses the global open_mutex to guard the creation of a symlink between a holding disk and a slave bdev during driver initialization/modificati...

CVE-2024-27062

CVE-2024-27062 relates to the Linux kernel nouveau driver, where the client object tree lacked locking and races occurred when adding/removing client objects (notably VRAM BAR mappings). The fix locks the client object tree to prevent race conditions during add/remove operations, addressing a gen...

CVE-2024-40965

CVE-2024-40965 (Linux kernel: i2c/lpi2c): The provided documents confirm a fix for a deadlock scenario in i2c-lpi2c where repeated clk_get_rate() calls during transfers could lock the clk mutex and cause deadlock when a tlv320aic32x4 codec is added. The resolution caches the clock rate and uses a...

CVE-2024-42124

CVE-2024-42124 affects the Linux kernel and fixes a preemption bug in qedf by making qedf_execute_tmf() non-preemptible. The issue was triggered by calling smp_processor_id() from preemptible code in qedf_execute_tmf90, causing a BUG_ON on RT kernels. Affected context is kernel-level SCSI qedf dr...

CVE-2024-42158

CVE-2024-42158 concerns the Linux kernel s390/pkey code where memory cleanup was updated to use kfree_sensitive() instead of memzero_explicit() and kfree() to address Coccinelle warnings. The connected sources explicitly state the fix involves replacing those calls with kfree_sensitive() to align...

CVE-2024-42302

CVE-2024-42302 : The Linux kernel fixed a use-after-free in PCI/DPC when a DPC event occurs concurrently with hot-removal on the same PCIe hierarchy. The underlying issue was that pci_bridge_wait_for_secondary_bus() did not hold a reference to the child pci_dev during a DPC event, allowing concur...

CVE-2024-43906

CVE-2024-43906 affects the Linux kernel, specifically the drm/admgpu path. The issue arises when user space passes an invalid ta type, causing the pointer context to be empty and leading to a potential null pointer dereference. The provided connected materials indicate the vulnerability has been ...

CVE-2024-49569

CVE-2024-49569 : In the Linux kernel, nvme-rdma: unquiesce admin_q before destroy it can cause a kernel hang when ctrl creation fails. The issue drains pending admin-queue requests, freezing at blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(). Fix implemented by reusing nvme_rdma_teardown_admin_queue() to properly dra...

CVE-2025-21639

The CVE-2025-21639 issue is in the Linux kernel SCTP sysctl handling (rto_min/rto_max) where current->nsproxy was used to read netns, risking a NULL pointer dereference and Oops when the task is exiting. The fix, as described in the initial document, replaces current->nsproxy usage with ret...

CVE-2025-21785

The CVE-2025-21785 issue is in the Linux kernel (arm64) cacheinfo handling. A loop that detects/populates cache information previously did a bounds check on the array size but did not account for cache levels with separate data/instructions caches, allowing an out-of-bounds write to the cacheinfo...

CVE-2010-2521

CVE-2010-2521 affects the Linux kernel NFS server (fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c) prior to 2.6.34-rc6. The issue is due to multiple buffer overflows in the XDR implementation, exploitable via a crafted NFSv4 WRITE request, impacting the read_buf and nfsd4_decode_compound paths. Consequences include denial of...

CVE-2011-1833

The CVE-2011-1833 issue affects the Linux kernel’s eCryptfs subsystem, specifically the ecryptfs_mount path (fs/ecryptfs/main.c). A race condition during mounting with a mismatched uid could let a local attacker bypass file permissions. This vulnerability is present in kernel versions before 3.1....

CVE-2014-7970

CVE-2014-7970 is described in connected Lenovo advisories as a Linux kernel vulnerability where pivot_root() could be misused to trigger a local denial of service (mount-tree loop) via dot-path arguments. Lenovo’s advisory for PowerKVM lists affected product: PowerKVM v3.1, and states the issue i...

CVE-2017-15274

CVE-2017-15274 affects the Linux kernel K ey Management subsystem: security/keys/keyctl.c fails to handle a NULL payload with a nonzero length, allowing local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via crafted add_key or KEYCTL calls, resulting in DoS. The issue is chained to the ke...