CVE-2025-21753

The CVE-2025-21753 entry concerns a use-after-free in the Linux kernel’s btrfs join_transaction path. Root cause: when joining the current (possibly aborted) transaction, the code reads the transaction’s aborted field after releasing fs_info->trans_lock and without holding an extra reference, ...

CVE-2025-22056

The CVE-2025-22056 issue affects the Linux kernel nft_tunnel handling of NFTA_TUNNEL_KEY_OPTS_GENEVE attributes, where the parse/dump logic performed type conversions before pointer arithmetic, causing a slab-out-of-bounds write. The fix is to perform pointer addition using char* units and correc...

CVE-2016-10200

CVE-2016-10200 describes a race condition in the Linux kernel’s L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature that can allow a local user to escalate privileges or cause a denial of service via repeated bind() calls without correctly checking SOCK_ZAPPED status. The issue affects Linux kernels prior to 4.8.14,...

CVE-2016-7097

CVE-2016-7097 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in which the setgid bit was not cleared during setxattr, allowing local users to gain group privileges if a setgid executable exists with restricted execute permissions. The issue is reported across the Linux filesystem/ACL handling and was addressed ...

CVE-2016-9806

CVE-2016-9806 describes a race condition in the Linux kernel netlink_dump function (net/netlink/af_netlink.c) that can be triggered by local users via craftedsendmsg calls, leading to a double-free and potentially other impacts. Public advisories from MiracleLinux, Unity Linux, and Oracle Linux d...

CVE-2017-5967

CVE-2017-5967 affects the Linux kernel: when CONFIG_TIMER_STATS is enabled, the time subsystem through kernel 4.9.9 allows a local attacker to reveal real PID values (outside of PID namespaces) by reading /proc/timer_list, via the print_timer path in kernel/time/timer_list.c and the __timer_stats...

CVE-2019-20806

CVE-2019-20806 affects the Linux kernel up to version 5.1 (i.e., before 5.2). The issue is a NULL pointer dereference in tw5864_handle_frame() (drivers/media/pci/tw5864/tw5864-video.c) that can lead to denial of service. The connected Nessus advisories reiterate the same root cause and state affe...

CVE-2022-21546

CVE-2022-21546 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the SCSI target path. The issue arises in target_core_iblock/file when handling WRITE_SAME commands if the NDOB bit is set (NDOB indicates no data buffer) or when zero SG elements are sent. The kernel patch adds a common WRITE_SAME check fo...

CVE-2022-49111

CVE-2022-49111 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the Bluetooth stack where a use-after-free occurs in hci_send_acl, triggered by HCI_EV_DISCONN_PHY_LINK_COMPLETE and improper handling of AMP_LINK cleanup. The trace (KASAN) shows a use-after-free in hci_send_acl leading to memory corruption, and ...

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-2022-49376

CVE-2022-49376 affects the Linux kernel SCSI subsystem (sd driver). The issue arises when sd_probe() hits an early error before sdkp->device is initialized, leading to a NULL pointer dereference inside sd_is_zoned() due to an unintended call to sd_zbc_release_disk(). The fix removes the sd_zbc...

CVE-2022-49412

CVE-2022-49412 describes a Linux kernel vulnerability in bfq where merging two bfqq queues could occur with different parent cgroups, potentially leading to a use-after-free if the parent changes between decision to merge and bfq_setup_merge() call. The root cause is reparenting of bfqqs (e.g., d...

CVE-2022-49416

CVE-2022-49416 is present in the Linux kernel, tied to a use-after-free bug in wifi/mac80211 chanctx handling. The issue occurs in ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_context() when the new context’s replace_state is REPLACE_NONE and the old context is freed in ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_reassign(), after...

CVE-2023-1637

CVE-2023-1637 affects the Linux kernel X86 CPU Power Management options, described as a speculative-execution style vulnerability in suspend-to-RAM resume. Connected advisories (e.g., ALAS-2024-076 and related Nessus/Amazon/Linux entries) confirm the issue is a local-privilege/information disclos...

CVE-2023-52621

CVE-2023-52621: In the Linux kernel, a fix was added to bpf map helpers (bpf_map_lookup_elem, bpf_map_update_elem, bpf_map_delete_elem) to check rcu_read_lock_trace_held() before use when running sleepable BPF programs. The vulnerability arises when sleepable BPF programs manipulate BPF maps unde...

CVE-2024-26700

CV E-2024-26700 is a Linux kernel issue: drm/amd/display had a fix to prevent MST null-pointer dereference on RV platforms. The crash trace shows a NULL pointer dereference in drm_dp_atomic_find_time_slots during DP MST time-slot calculation, leading to a kernel oops. Affected code path involves ...

CVE-2024-26708

The Linux kernel contains a race condition within the mptcp component involving Fastopen and PM-trigger subflow shutdown , which was identified by syzkaller. The vulnerability stems from the subflow status potentially changing again before the subflow_state_change callback is invoked. The fix inv...

CVE-2024-26843

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the efi runtime component where a potential overflow of the soft-reserved region size can occur. This happens when a soft-reserved region contains $\ge$ 4GB worth of pages, causing the md_size value to be narrowed. The issue has been resolved in recent...

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-2024-35814

CVE-2024-35814 – Linux kernel swiotlb double-allocation fix Affects: Linux kernel SWIOTLB path used for DMA in virtio/vsock contexts (e.g., VM bouncing with restricted DMA pool). Root cause: A prior fix introduced a braino in alignment checks, causing swiotlb_alloc() to return non-page-aligned al...

CVE-2024-36006

CVE-2024-36006 affects the Linux kernel mlxsw spectrum_acl_tcam code. The root cause is incorrect list usage: both vchunk_migrate_all and vregion_rehash paths call list_first_entry() without ensuring the lists are non-empty, triggering warnings. The connected Astra Linux bulletin confirms the sam...

CVE-2024-36939

CVE-2024-36939 affects the Linux kernel nfs subsystem. Root cause: rpc_proc_register() errors in init_nfs_fs() could be ignored, causing nfs_net_exit() to run during netns destruction and trigger warning paths. The issue was addressed by properly handling the rpc_proc_register() error in nfs_net_...

CVE-2024-36941

CVE-2024-36941 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the wifi nl80211 path. The issue is a NULL pointer dereference that could occur if parsing of the coalescing rule fails and the code dereferences NULL when freeing resources. The connected IBM advisory confirms the linux kernel fix for this...

CVE-2024-36950

CVE-2024-36950 is a Linux kernel vulnerability resolved in the FireWire OHCI driver. The issue occurred in the interrupt handler when a bus reset interrupt could be unmasked and cause a freeze if the bus reset was not yet serviced. The fix masks bus reset interrupts in the IRQ handler and unmasks...

CVE-2024-38596

CVE-2024-38596 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in af_unix data races between unix_release_sock/unix_stream_sendmsg. The races occur because sk_shutdown is written atomically by unix_release_sock() (WRITE_ONCE) but read non‑atomically by unix_stream_sendmsg(), triggering a KCSAN data race (BUG: KC...

CVE-2024-40927

CVE-2024-40927 : Linux kernel xhci TD clearing for multiple streams is fixed. When an endpoint has >1 in-flight TDs across streams and is stopped, the driver now defers processing of additional TDs and issues a Set TR Dequeue Pointer for each, by deferring subsequent TDs until the first is pro...

CVE-2024-40967

CVE-2024-40967 affects the Linux kernel serial: imx subsystem. The root cause is a potential deadlock while waiting for USR2_TXDC in transmitter empty handling. The patch introduces a timeout of at most 1 second; if the timeout occurs, the driver ignores the transmitter state and continues optimi...

CVE-2024-40995

CVE-2024-40995 affects the Linux kernel net/sched: act_api where repeated adds of actions with the same index could hang by causing an infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc. The fix returns -EAGAIN to prevent the loop while preserving documented behavior. Syzbot reported tasks blocked waiting on r...

CVE-2024-41023

CVE-2024-41023 — Linux kernel vulnerability in sched/deadline: a task_struct reference leak occurs when a timer is canceled before expiration after start_dl_timer() increments the refcount. The leak happens because the timer callback is supposed to decrement the reference count, but an early-canc...

CVE-2024-41040

The CVE-2024-41040 issue is a Linux kernel net/sched use-after-free (UAF) in tcf_ct_flow_table_process_conn when resolving a clash. It is evidenced by KASAN reports of slab-use-after-free and is addressed by the fix that retrieves the conntrack entry from skb again after confirming conntrack. Con...

CVE-2024-41044

CVE-2024-41044 : Linux kernel PPP handling vulnerability. The issue arises in ppp_async_encode() which assumes LCP packets have valid body (codes 1–7). An attacker could craft a claim-as-LCP packet that is actually malformed, enabling a local denial-of-service. The fix adds ppp_check_packet() to ...

CVE-2024-43871

CVE-2024-43871 (Linux kernel) is resolved by fixing a memory leakage in the devres path when using driver API devm_free_percpu to free memory allocated by devm_alloc_percpu. The root cause was that devm_free_percpu() called devres_destroy(), which could leak memory; the patch uses devres_release(...

CVE-2024-49875

CVE-2024-49875 affects the Linux kernel. Affected component: nfsd path within the kernel’s VFS stack handling EBADMSG from ext4 readdir leading to a warning and non-standard errno. The fixed behavior maps EBADMSG to nfserr_io to avoid the warning, alleviating the -EBADMSG warning/ERR_PTR(-EFSBADC...

CVE-2024-49968

CVE-2024-49968 (from Miracle Linux AXSA advisory) concerns Linux kernel ext4. The vulnerability occurs when mounting an ext4 filesystem that does not have the casefold feature while the default hash version is DX_HASH_SIPHASH; in this scenario the mount operation exits, effectively preventing mou...

CVE-2024-50199

CVE-2024-50199 (Linux kernel): The issue is in mm/swapfile handling where HugeTLB pages could be leaked after swapoff due to pud_none_or_clear_bad path, causing a bad pud error. The described fix is to skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma, preventing leakage when swapping. Affected areas are the swap...

CVE-2024-53059

Technical details (affected products, root cause, impact, fixes) for CVE-2024-53059 are not provided in the supplied connected documents. Monitor for updates from upstream advisories.

CVE-2024-53209

CVE-2024-53209 concerns the bnxt_en driver in the Linux kernel. The issue arises from how MTU changes interact with XDP-active paths and the AGG ring/rx_skb_mode configuration, potentially allowing the hardware to DMA data larger than the allocated buffer and cause memory corruption or crashes. T...

CVE-2024-53213

CVE-2024-53213 – Linux kernel (LAN78xx USB Ethernet driver) Connected sources confirm a concrete issue in lan78xx where a buffer allocated in lan78xx_probe() was freed twice: once via usb_free_urb(dev->urb_intr) with URB_FREE_BUFFER and again by kfree(buf). The root cause is the double free st...

CVE-2024-56606

CVE-2024-56606 concerns the Linux kernel vulnerability in af_packet where, after sock_init_data() allocates a sk object and attaches it to a sock, packet_create() on error frees the sk but leaves a dangling sk pointer in the sock. This can enable a use-after-free if other code reuses that pointer...

CVE-2024-56619

CVE-2024-56619 — Linux kernel nilfs2 . A potential out-of-bounds memory access in nilfs_find_entry() when an inode’s i_size is large/corrupted. Root cause: i_size upper 32 bits were lost due to a local variable type, causing underflow in end-address calculation. Fix: replace the offending local v...

CVE-2024-56729

CVE-2024-56729 concerns the Linux kernel’s SMB/CIFS path. The vulnerability arises from not initializing cfid->tcon before performing network operations, which can cause a leak of a tcon reference when a lease-break races with opening a cached directory. The described root cause is that cached...

CVE-2024-57901

Technical details for CVE-2024-57901 are not provided in the connected documents. The initial description notes the af_packet vlan_get_protocol_dgram() fix but does not specify affected product/version, exploitability, or remediation beyond generic update guidance. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2025-21772

CVE-2025-21772 involves the Linux kernel partition probing path (mac partition handling). The fix addresses processing of bogus partition tables by: (1) using put_dev_sector() for the bailout when a bad partoffset occurs, after a successful read_part_sector(); (2) rejecting partition tables that ...

CVE-2025-21925

CVE-2025-21925 : In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was fixed where skb_get() could be used before dev_queue_xmit() when a shared skb is processed (e.g., with IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING). The documented exploit path involves syzbot crashing a host via the llc_sap_action_send_test_c path, with the e1000...

CVE-2021-29649

The CVE-2021-29649 issue affects the Linux kernel prior to 5.11.11. It is a memory leak in the user mode driver (UMD) caused by incomplete cleanup in kernel/usermode_driver.c and kernel/bpf/preload/bpf_preload_kern.c. The vulnerability is local and does not imply remote code execution by itself; ...

CVE-2022-1419

CVE-2022-1419 affects the Linux kernel DRM/vgem path: ioctl DRM_IOCTL_MODE_DESTROY_DUMB can concurrently reduce the refcount of drm_vgem_gem_object created by vgem_gem_dumb_create, while that create path may access the freed object. The public description for this CVE notes that on 32-bit systems...

CVE-2022-48943

CVE-2022-48943: In the Linux kernel KVM x86/mmu code, a bug in asynchronous page-fault (APF) handling could cause a guest to hang by confusing a valid token with a zero value, potentially delaying or losing READY events. The fix ensures the APF token is non-zero, preventing misinterpretation of t...

CVE-2022-49322

The CVE-2022-49322 issue affects the Linux kernel in PREEMPT_RT builds when bootparams include trace_event=initcall:initcall_start tp_printk=1. In this scenario, output_printk() triggers a sleepable rt-spinlock usage via rt_spin_lock, causing a sleeping function to be called from an invalid conte...

CVE-2022-49451

CVE-2022-49451 affects the Linux kernel firmware: arm_scmi, base protocol enumeration. The vulnerability stems from improper validation when enumerating SCMI protocols with BASE_DISCOVER_LIST_PROTOCOLS: the check used a sum of unsigned integers that could overflow, allowing bypass of the check if...

CVE-2023-52572

CVE-2023-52572 is confirmed in the provided connected documents. The vulnerability is a use-after-free (UAF) in the CIFS/SMB protocol handling inside the Linux kernel, specifically in cifs_demultiplex_thread() and related paths, which can lead to a UAF in smb2_is_network_name_deleted and downstre...