CVE-2024-36286

CVE-2024-36286 is a Linux kernel issue where netfilter nfnetlink_queue could call nf_reinject() without holding rcu_read_lock, risking suspicious RCU usage. The resolution adds proper RCU handling in instance_destroy_rcu() and related paths (e.g., nf_reinject, nfqnl_flush) to ensure rcu_read_lock...

CVE-2024-47737

CVE-2024-47737 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in NFSD where, when xdr_reserve_space returns NULL due to insufficient buffer, a missing cache_put after a successful cache_get can occur if idmap_lookup triggers lookup_fn. This can create a mismatch in the nfsd cache handling. The CVE has a CVSSv3....

CVE-2024-49859

The CVE-2024-49859 entry concerns the Linux kernel file system f2fs. The vulnerability arises from ioctl interfaces (notably f2fs_ioc_set_pin_file(), f2fs_move_file_range(), and f2fs_defragment_range()) failing to consistently check the atomic_write status, which may enable a race condition. The ...

CVE-2025-21991

The CVE-2025-21991 issue affects the Linux kernel’s AMD microcode loader for x86. It could trigger an out-of-bounds access when iterating NUMA nodes with empty or CPU-less nodes, potentially accessing cpu_data beyond its bounds during a microcode update. The root cause is that load_microcode_amd(...

CVE-2026-31402

CVE-2026-31402 affects the Linux kernel NFSv4.0 server (nfsd) via the LOCK replay cache. A large lock owner in a denied LOCK can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write into the 112-byte replay buffer, corrupting adjacent heap memory. The issue can be triggered remotely by two cooperating NFSv4.0 client...

CVE-2011-1495

CVE-2011-1495 affects the Linux kernel up to 2.6.38, in drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.c. The issue arises because length and offset values are not validated before memory copy operations, potentially allowing a local user to gain privileges, cause memory corruption (DoS), or read sensitive ker...

CVE-2015-8970

CVE-2015-8970 affects the Linux kernel prior to 4.4.2. The vulnerability is in crypto/algif_skcipher.c where a setkey operation on an AF_ALG socket may not be verified before an accept system call is processed, allowing a local attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a...

CVE-2017-1000365

CVE-2017-1000365 affects the Linux kernel where size limits for arguments and environment strings passed via RLIMIT_STACK/RLIMIT_INFINITY do not properly account for the argument/environment pointers, enabling a local attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code. The issue is described as a lim...

CVE-2017-13695

CVE-2017-13695 affects the Linux kernel up to 4.12.9. The vulnerability stems from acpi_ns_evaluate() in drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c not flushing the operand cache, which can cause a kernel memory disclosure via a crafted ACPI table and may bypass KASLR (kernel

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-2018-25020

Summary of CVE-2018-25020 (Linux kernel BPF): The vulnerability is in the BPF subsystem where a long jump over an instruction sequence can cause an overflow. It specifically affects the kernel's BPF implementations in files kernel/bpf/core.c and net/core/filter.c, for Linux kernels prior to 4.17....

CVE-2018-6555

CVE-2018-6555 is a Linux kernel local use-after-free via the irda_setsockopt path in irda/af_irda.c (and later in staging/irda), potentially causing memory corruption, denial of service, or a system crash. Affected trees reference IRDA socket usage as the attack vector. The vulnerability is addre...

CVE-2019-19047

CVE-2019-19047 is a memory-leak & potential DoS in the Linux kernel's mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() (drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c) triggered by mlx5_crdump_collect() failures. Affected: Linux kernel versions before 5.3.11. Impact is memory consumption leading to DoS; exploitat...

CVE-2021-47383

CVE-2021-47383 : In the Linux kernel, the tty imageblit out-of-bounds access is caused when an ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO with only xres, yres, and bits_per_pixel is sent and the struct matches the previous ioctl. This leaves fb_var_screeninfo incomplete, causing updatescrollmode() to compute a wr...

CVE-2022-3521

CVE-2022-3521 is a race-condition vulnerability in the Linux Kernel KCM subsystem (function kcm_tx_work in net/kcm/kcmsock.c). The issue can allow a local attacker to trigger a crash via race conditions in the KCM path. Technical details in connected sources confirm the affected component and roo...

CVE-2023-52560

CVE-2023-52560 affects the Linux kernel in the damon vaddr test paths (mm/damon/vaddr-test). The issue is a memory leak where damon_region and damon_target allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() and kmalloc() respectively are not freed after damon_destroy_ctx() was removed by a commit, and damon_region ...

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-2024-26826

CVE-2024-26826 (Linux kernel, MPTCP) : The issue occurs when a subflow becomes stale in MPTCP; the data re-injection step incorrectly uses a TCP-specific helper on an MPTCP socket, making the RTX queue check for any unacked data unreliable and potentially causing improper re-injection of mptcp-le...

CVE-2024-26855

CVE-2024-26855 – Linux kernel (net/ice) : The vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference in ice_bridge_setlink(). If nlmsg_find_attr() returns NULL, br_spec may be dereferenced during nla_for_each_nested(), causing a crash/local impact. The fix adds an explicit check that br_spec is not NULL bef...

CVE-2024-38612

The Linux kernel is vulnerable to an invalid unregister error path within the ipv6: sr component. Specifically, the error path of the seg6_init() function is incorrect when CONFIG_IPV6_SEG6_LWTUNNEL is not defined; in this scenario, if seg6_hmac_init() fails, the genl_unregister_family() function...

CVE-2024-42073

The CVE-2024-42073 issue is in the Linux kernel mlxsw spectrum_buffers path. The Shared Buffer Status Register (SBSR) payloads used by two operations were built with absolute port numbers rather than numbers relative to the first port of the port_page, causing memory corruption on Spectrum-4 syst...

CVE-2024-47698

CVE-2024-47698 (Linux kernel) affects DVB frontends rtl2830/rtl2832 in the media/dvb-frontends subsystem. The issue is an out-of-bounds write in the pid_filter logic for rtl2832, caused by not enforcing the maximum index on bit manipulations (dev->filters is 32-bit; indices must be 0–31). The ...

CVE-2024-53110

The CVE-2024-53110 issue affects the Linux kernel vp_vdpa component, where the id_table array wasn’t terminated with a null terminator. This could cause vdpa_mgmtdev_get_classes() to iterate multiple times and access undefined memory. The fix adds one extra virtio_device_id as a null terminator t...

CVE-2024-53113

CVE-2024-53113 (Linux kernel) : A NULL pointer de-reference can occur in alloc_pages_bulk_noprof when a task is migrated between cpusets with cpuset enabled; ac.preferred_zoneref may become NULL during zonelist traversal, leading to a crash. The fixes introduce a NULL pointer check on preferred_z...

CVE-2024-56663

CVE-2024-56663 describes a Linux kernel vulnerability in wifi nl80211 where NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID could be misvalidated due to an off-by-one error in the attribute range. The issue manifests as a potential out-of-bounds access (demonstrated by a KASAN wild-memory-access bug in ieee80211_tx_con...

CVE-2024-57947

The CVE-2024-57947 issue affects the Linux kernel netfilter nf_set_pipapo logic used in NFT range matching. The bug arises from how the initial map is filled: the initial buffer was set to all-ones without constraining to the size of the first field, and after each map-search round, the swap betw...

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-2025-21693

In the Linux kernel CVE-2025-21693, the zswap path could UAF resources if the original per-CPU acomp_ctx is still in use when a CPU hotplug occurs, because preemption/migration isn’t disabled during the operation. The defect affects mm/zswap: the code retrieves acomp_ctx on the current CPU at ope...

CVE-2014-3645

CVE-2014-3645 affects the Linux kernel KVM implementation in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c, with versions before 3.12. The root cause is that the code path handling the INVEPT instruction lacks an exit handler, which can allow a guest OS user to trigger a denial of service by crashing the guest via a crafte...

CVE-2017-14489

CVE-2017-14489 affects the Linux kernel iSCSI transport (drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c: iscsi_if_rx). The root cause is incorrect length validation, enabling a local authenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service (kernel panic) or memory corruption. Affected as of kernel versions up ...

CVE-2021-47103

CVE-2021-47103 concerns the Linux kernel: the pointer sk_rx_dst used in inet paths (tcp_v4_do_rcv/tcp_v6_do_rcv) was protected by RCU without proper documentation and ordering, leading to potential use-after-free scenarios demonstrated by KASAN in dst_check and related code paths. The connected S...

CVE-2022-3176

CVE-2022-3176 describes a use-after-free in the Linux kernel’s io_uring subsystem. Signalfd_poll() and binder_poll() use a waitqueue whose lifetime is the current task, and the POLLFREE notification is sent to all waiters before the queue is freed, but io_uring poll does not handle POLLFREE. This...

CVE-2022-49287

CVE-2022-49287 concerns a Linux kernel refcount issue in tpm_chip handling that can trigger a use-after-free when interacting with TPM devices. The description details a sequence where a TPM command is written to /dev/tpmrm after unloading tpm_tis_spi, causing a refcount warning: refcount_t: addi...

CVE-2022-49371

CVE-2022-49371: In the Linux kernel, driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach. The deadlock occurs when async_probe is scheduled while holding device_lock(dev); async_helper may also acquire dev, causing A-A deadlock. The fix moves async_schedule_dev outside the device_lock path, leveraging t...

CVE-2022-49465

CVE-2022-49465 (Linux kernel) : A use-after-free could occur in blk-throttle due to BIO_THROTTLED being set on throttled BIOs after __blk_throtl_bio(), leading to use-after-free during I/O completion. The fix moves BIO_THROTTLED assignment into queue_lock, preventing premature release of the bio....

CVE-2023-52751

CVE-2023-52751 : In the Linux kernel CIFS (smb2_query_info_compound), a race between open_cached_dir() and cached_dir_lease_break() can trigger a use-after-free in the cache entry for a newly created directory handle. The issue arises as the code drops the last reference to the new cfid while a l...

CVE-2023-52772

CVE-2023-52772 is a Linux kernel use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor() affecting af_unix sockets. The issue arises when releasing the unix socket lock and u->oob_skb can be changed by another thread, requiring temporarily increased skb refcount. The vulnerability was fixed upstream in the...

CVE-2023-52813

CVE-2023-52813 : Linux kernel crypto: pcrypt fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET. The issue was a hung task in test_aead_vec_cfg caused by padata_do_parallel returning -EBUSY when pinst->flags included PADATA_RESET, preventing aead_request_complete() and leading to a hung wait. Connected sources des...

CVE-2023-52832

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the mac80211 wifi component where the function ieee80211_get_tx_power() could return an INT_MIN value representing an unset power level . This behavior triggers a signed-integer-overflow UBSAN warning during multiplication in net/wireless/nl80211.c. To...

CVE-2024-0562

CVE-2024-0562 is a Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in wb_inode_writeback_end related to disk removal. When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister stops write-back, but wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation work after the bdi_writeback has been freed, causing a timer to a...

CVE-2024-26707

The connected documents provide concrete details for CVE-2024-26707: in the Linux kernel net/hsr code, WARN_ONCE() in send_hsr_supervision_frame() is removed and replaced with netdev_warn_once(), and a similar change is suggested for send_prp_supervision_frame() to quiet syzkaller warnings. This ...

CVE-2024-26712

In CVE-2024-26712, the Linux kernel powerpc/kasan path Fixes an addr error in kasan_init_region when k_start is not page-aligned. The issue occurred because k_cur = k_start & PAGE_MASK could be less than k_start, causing va = block + k_cur - k_start to be before the allocated memblock, making the...

CVE-2024-26744

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the RDMA/srpt component where specifying the srpt_service_guid parameter while loading the ib_srpt kernel module triggers a kernel crash . The root cause is a NULL pointer dereference (address: 0000000000000000) during the module loading process, speci...

CVE-2024-35942

CVE-2024-35942 relates to the Linux kernel and affects the imx8mp block clock handling. The issue occurs when the fdcc clock, intended for the HDMI RX domain, is added to the hdmimix domain while HDMI TX/LCDIF probe sequencing can disable it. If the clock is disabled before HDMI/LCDIF probe, LCDI...

CVE-2024-35952

CVE-2024-35952 concerns the Linux kernel: a hard-to-reproduce soft-lockup was caused by a loop in ast_dp_set_on_off() that could infinite-loop because VGACRI-Dx scratch registers—actually MCU-controlled by DPMCU in the BMC—are protected by scu-lock. If scu-lock is enabled, DPMCU cannot update the...

CVE-2024-39276

A reference count leak exists in the Linux kernel 's ext4 filesystem component within the ext4_xattr_block_cache_find() function. The vulnerability occurs when ext4_sb_bread() returns -ENOMEM; in this scenario, the e_refcnt of the cache entry, which was incremented during __entry_find(), is not p...

CVE-2024-40906

The CVE-2024-40906 entry describes a Linux kernel vulnerability in the mlx5 driver where the health timer could continue after a failed teardown_hca during driver removal, risking a use-after-free that could trigger a page fault. The fix is to always stop the health monitor during driver removal,...

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-2024-42284

CVE-2024-42284 affects the Linux kernel Tipc UDP address handling. The vulnerability arises when tipc_udp_addr2str() returns 0 on error, allowing an invalid UDP media address to be treated as valid and potentially triggering a buffer overflow in tipc_media_addr_printf(). The fix commits return a ...

CVE-2024-46826

The CVE-2024-46826 issue is a concrete Linux kernel vulnerability where the ELF loader uses kernel.randomize_va_space twice, allowing potential inconsistency of the randomization value across an exec. The root cause is a double read of the sysctl value, which can change over time, potentially cau...