CVE-2024-50216

This CVE (CVE-2024-50216) is described in a MiracleLinux advisory as a Linux kernel XFS issue: the last-resort AG selection in xfs_filestream_pick_ag could leak an uninitialized pag when the code path falls back to an online AG. Root cause: the loop used pag as an iterator while later code expect...

CVE-2024-50237

In the Linux kernel, CVE-2024-50237 affects the wifi mac80211 path: the driver could receive a stopped vif in the .get_txpower callback, risking a crash from uninitialized private data. The documented fix is to avoid passing a stopped vif to the driver, mitigating kernel-driver instability. Impac...

CVE-2024-53216

CVE-2024-53216 (Linux kernel) : The vulnerability exists in nfsd’s handling of svc_expkey/svc_export release. When the last reference to cache_head can drop to zero in c_show/e_show, svc_export_put and expkey_put may free ex_uuid, after which access to ex_uuid can occur (use-after-free). An rcu_r...

CVE-2024-56718

The CVE-2024-56718 entry concerns the Linux kernel net/smc subsystem, where link-down work could run after the lgr is freed, risking a crash. Root cause described: link-down work may be scheduled before lgr is freed and then executed after free, causing list_del corruption and a kernel BUG. The f...

CVE-2025-21821

CVE-2025-21821 affects the Linux kernel; specifically the fbdev/omap framebuffer code. The issue arises when using touchscreen with framebuffer, causing a crash (scheduling while atomic) in the driver path related to LCD DMA. The provided advisory notes the root cause is tied to IRQ handling for ...

CVE-2014-8133

CVE-2014-8133 affects the Linux kernel TLS implementation (arch/x86/kernel/tls.c) up to version 3.18.1. A local attacker can exploit a crafted application that uses set_thread_area and subsequently reads a 16‑bit value to bypass the espfix protection and, in turn, bypass ASLR. The description con...

CVE-2016-8658

CVE-2016-8658: Stack-based buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap (Linux kernel, brcmfmac cfg80211) before 4.7.5. Exploitation path involves sending a Netlink command with a long SSID Information Element, enabling a local attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (system crash) or potentially o...

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...

CVE-2018-12896

CVE-2018-12896 affects the Linux kernel up to version 4.17.3, specifically the POSIX timers path (kernel/time/posix-timers.c). An integer overflow in the overrun accounting is caused by the timer overrun values being computed with int-based accounting, which can exceed INT_MAX depending on interv...

CVE-2018-18386

The CVE-2018-18386 issue affects the Linux kernel up to version 4.14.10, in drivers/tty/n_tty.c, where an EXTPROC vs ICANON confusion in TIOCINQ allows local attackers with access to pseudo terminals to hang or block further use of any PTY. The root cause is a terminal/TTY handling inconsistency,...

CVE-2018-7995

CVE-2018-7995 describes a race condition in Linux kernel’s store_int_with_restart() (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c) up to version 4.15.7. This flaw lets a local attacker with root access to write to /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck/check_interval and trigger a denial of service/pa...

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-2022-48988

In CVE-2022-48988, the Linux kernel memcg subsystem vulnerability was resolved: memcg_write_event_control() could race with file renames/removals because a file-type check was dropped when __file_cft() was altered. The fix resurrects the file-type check by validating the superblock and dentry typ...

CVE-2022-49323

CVE-2022-49323 affects the Linux kernel IOMMU ARM-SMMU code. The issue is a possible null pointer dereference in arm_smmu_device_probe() when resource retrieval returns NULL, which could occur when using the resource pointer before it is validated. The fix rearranges resource handling by deferrin...

CVE-2022-49519

The CVE-2022-49519 issue concerns the Linux kernel wireless driver ath10k. A double invocation of ath10k_halt during a suspend sequence could occur when FW recovery triggered by ath10k_core_restart() interleaves with suspend, freezing the restart worker and causing ath10k_htt_rx_free() to be free...

CVE-2022-49572

CVE-2022-49572 affects the Linux kernel tcp path. The issue is a data race around reading the sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle variable, where reads could race with concurrent writes. The published fix adds a READ_ONCE() to the readers to prevent concurrent modification during reads. The vulnerab...

CVE-2023-52696

The Linux kernel is affected by a vulnerability in the powerpc/powernv component. The issue is caused by a missing null pointer check in the opal_powercap_init() function; specifically, the kasprintf() function may return NULL upon failure, which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476). ...

CVE-2023-52834

CVE-2023-52834: Linux kernel DMA RX overflow issue in atl1c/alx drivers resolved. Root cause: RX overflow caused by problematic skb handling; fix replaces custom allocator with address check and skb_reserve() to steer away from 0x…fc0 addresses. A simpler workaround implemented for the alx driver...

CVE-2024-26903

CVE-2024-26903 (Linux kernel) : Bluetooth: rfcomm: Fix null-ptr-deref in rfcomm_check_security. Root cause: after RFCOMM/L2CAP disconnect, the code could dereference a released l2cap_conn, leading to a null pointer access when calling hci_conn_security. Impact per CVSS: Medium (5.5) with high ava...

CVE-2024-35823

The Linux kernel is vulnerable to a unicode buffer corruption when deleting characters. This issue originates from overlapping buffers during the deletion process. The vulnerability is specifically related to the vt component and is the same issue previously addressed in the VGA text buffer (comm...

CVE-2024-35989

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability in the dmaengine: idxd component where removing the driver on single-CPU platforms can trigger a kernel oops . During the rmmod cleanup process, a registered offline callback is invoked, but on single-CPU systems, no valid target exists to migrate the per...

CVE-2024-38558

Technical details for CVE-2024-38558 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates from official advisories to confirm affected products, impact, and fixes.

CVE-2024-40924

CVE-2024-40924 (Linux kernel) resolved by making the DPT object in drm/i915/dpt unshrinkable. In some scenarios the DPT object could be shrunk while its associated framebuffer remained, leaving a stale entry in the vm->bound_list. When the kernel attempted to rewrite PTEs using a stale CPU map...

CVE-2024-40941

The CVE-2024-40941 entry applies to the Linux kernel wifi driver, specifically iwlwifi mvm. The root cause is a misread: when firmware sends a notification claiming more data exists than actually allocated, the stack/buffer may be read past the intended boundary. The description notes that the pr...

CVE-2024-42270

Technical details (affected product/version, exploit, and patch) for CVE-2024-42270 are not provided in the supplied documents. Monitor official advisories and CVE records for updates from kernel maintainers and CVE databases.

CVE-2024-46724

CVE-2024-46724 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in drm/amdgpu where an out-of-bounds read of df_v1_7_channel_number could occur. The issue stems from not validating fb_channel_number range, leading to an array read error. A patch/mitigation has been applied in upstream kernel releases, and several...

CVE-2024-46754

CVE-2024-46754 pertains to the Linux kernel BPF subsystem. The issue arises in the lwt_seg6local_prog_ops related to BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_SEG6LOCAL, where BPF test execution via bpf_test_run could occur without entering input_action_end_bpf() first. The root cause is tied to the seg6 local test path...

CVE-2024-47696

CVE-2024-47696 concerns the Linux kernel, specifically the RDMA/iwcm path. The root cause is a use‑after‑free during flushing of the iwcm_wq when it was created without the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag, which can break forward‑progress and lead to deadlock if a flush discovers the workqueue in a reclaimin...

CVE-2024-49959

CVE-2024-49959 (Linux kernel) : The issue occurs in journaling code (jbd2). During journal space waits, __jbd2_log_wait_for_space() may call jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() to reclaim space; if an error happens inside that cleanup (e.g., EIO) the function could keep waiting instead of stopping, poten...

CVE-2024-49973

CVE-2024-49973 affects the Linux kernel in the r8169/RTL8125 hardware path. RTL8125 tally counter was extended with new fields; if the host memory allocation isn’t large enough to hold all tally counter values, the device could DMA into unallocated memory. The fix is to allocate a memory area lar...

CVE-2024-50101

CVE-2024-50101 occurs in the Linux kernel iommu/vt-d code where domain_context_clear() incorrectly called pci_for_each_dma_alias() for non‑PCI devices, potentially causing kernel hangs. The fix adds a check to only call pci_for_each_dma_alias() for PCI devices and calls domain_context_clear_one()...

CVE-2024-50153

CVE-2024-50153 — Linux kernel null pointer dereference in target_alloc_device() The Astra Linux advisory (and linked sources) confirm a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's SCSI target core (target_alloc_device) where memory allocation for device queues could fail before dev.transport is initializ...

CVE-2024-50278

The CVE-2024-50278 vulnerability affects the Linux kernel’s dm-cache (device-mapper) component. It can cause an out-of-bounds access in the dirty-bitset when the fast device is expanded before the first resume of the cache table, due to the first-resume size check not being performed. Reproductio...

CVE-2024-53105

CVE-2024-53105 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the memory allocator path. The issue was caused by not clearing the mlocked flag during page freeing, which could lead to a bad page state during free_pages_prepare. The fixed code moves the mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare() within ...

CVE-2024-53128

The CVE-2024-53128 issue is in the Linux kernel’s sched/task_stack path: when CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS and CONFIG_KASAN_STACK are enabled, object_is_on_stack() may yield incorrect results because tagged pointers in the object could differ from the untagged stack pointer. The result can trigger warnin...

CVE-2024-53239

CVE-2024-53239 relates to the Linux kernel ALSA 6fire driver. The vulnerability arises when resources are released immediately after usb6fire_chip_abort(), while the card object may still be in use (the code calls snd_card_free_when_closed()). This can lead to a use-after-free scenario. The docum...

CVE-2024-56654

CVE-2024-56654 affects the Linux kernel Bluetooth stack. The flaw arises from using rcu_read_(un)lock inside list_for_each_entry_rcu, which is unsafe because entries dereferenced under RCU must be obtained via rcu_dereference(). The advisory states this is not legal and describes a patch that fix...

CVE-2024-56715

Summary: CVE-2024-56715 affects the Linux kernel due to an issue in the ionic netdev notifier handling. When register_netdev() fails, the driver could leak the netdev notifier. Root cause (as described): The notifier is not unregistered on register_netdev() failure, leading to a leak. Fix / remed...

CVE-2024-56775

CVE-2024-56775 concerns the Linux kernel DRM/AMD display stack. The issue is in the plane state backup/restore flow where the plane refcount is not preserved, risking memory leaks if the refcount should decrease or double frees/invalid memory accesses if it should increase during state transition...

CVE-2024-57879

CVE-2024-57879 affects the Linux kernel Bluetooth stack (ISO) where the hdev device reference may not be released at the end of iso_listen_bis due to hci_get_route returning while still holding the device. The root cause is not releasing hdev with hci_dev_put on all code paths, including error ex...

CVE-2024-57892

CVE-2024-57892 relates to the Linux kernel OCFS2 quota handling. The issue is a slab-use-after-free when remounting an ocfs2 filesystem as read-only and a quota_getnextquota syscall is used. The root cause is a dangling dqi_priv pointer that is freed during remount but not cleared, combined with ...

CVE-2024-57946

CVE-2024-57946 affects Linux kernel virtio-blk: during system suspend, the PM callbacks previously kept the block queue frozen, risking deadlocks if code path invoked bio_queue_enter() while suspended. The fix replaces queue quiesce with a freeze-and-thaw approach in virtio-blk PM callbacks and d...

CVE-2024-57949

Summary: CVE-2024-57949 affects the Linux kernel’s irqchip/gic-v3-its path. The vulnerability arises when its_irq_set_vcpu_affinity() is called inside a nested interrupt-disabled region; the prior sequence used raw_spin_lock_irqsave() to disable interrupts, then left a guard that could re-enable ...

CVE-2025-22020

CVE-2025-22020 pertains to the Linux kernel memstick subsystem, fixing a slab-use-after-free in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove that could crash via rtsx_usb_ms_poll_card. Affected code path involves memstick host allocation during driver probe and removal, with a use-after-free arising from freeing drive...

CVE-2025-39735

CVE-2025-39735 affects the Linux kernel's JFS: a slab-out-of-bounds read in ea_get() can occur when processing extended attributes. The root cause is an overflow during clamping of ea_size against EALIST_SIZE(ea_buf->xattr) due to int upper-bound handling, causing a negative size to be used in...

CVE-2017-7495

CVE-2017-7495 affects the Linux kernel’s ext4 inode handling (inode.c) in data=ordered mode, where a mishandled needs-flushing-before-commit list leaks sensitive data from other users’ files under opportunistic conditions. The cited sources specify this is a local vulnerability: an attacker with ...

CVE-2020-29534

CVE-2020-29534 affects the Linux kernel prior to 5.9.3. The io_uring subsystem takes a non-refcounted reference to the submitting process’ files_struct, which can lead to incorrect optimization of unshare_fd() during execve(), as CID-0f2122045b94 describes. This is a local vulnerability with pote...

CVE-2021-28691

Summary (CVE-2021-28691) In the Linux kernel Xen hypervisor integration, xen-netback may suffer a use-after-free when tearing down the backend. The root cause is that the RX task thread can be freed if the frontend triggers a thread stop during backend teardown, leading to a stale pointer being u...

CVE-2021-3411

CVE-2021-3411 describes a memory access violation in the Linux kernel prior to 5.10, caused by a padding int3 check during linking. The flaw can affect data confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. A Nessus Unity Linux advisory references this vulnerability (UTSA-2026-004638) and reit...

CVE-2021-47495

CVE-2021-47495 involves the Linux kernel usbnet vulnerability where a zero maxpacket caused an invalid division and a kernel oops. The description notes a sanity check for maxpacket and that a 0 value is nonsensical, leading to a failure to divide by it. The accompanying notes indicate a fix was ...