CVE-2021-47599

CVE-2021-47599 covers a Linux kernel bug in btrfs: during pruning/moving devices, btrfs_show_devname() could fail to find devices and emit a warning. The fix updates the device list handling so latest_dev->name is shown reliably in /proc/self/mounts, with devices kept alive under RCU protectio...

CVE-2021-47644

CVE-2021-47644 affects the Linux kernel where the “media: staging: media: zoran” code path was updated to move videodev allocation out of zr36057_init() and create new handling functions for zr->video_dev. The change fixes a memory leak in zr->video_dev and improves code readability. The vu...

CVE-2022-49137

CVE-2022-49137 concerns a refcount leak in the Linux kernel’s amdgpu_cs_fence_to_handle_ioctl() path. When info->in.what hits the default case, the function returns -EINVAL without decrementing the previously bumped dma_fence refcount, causing leaks. The issue arises from a missing refcount de...

CVE-2023-2430

CVE-2023-2430 concerns the Linux kernel io_uring IOPOLL path. The root cause is a missing lock in io_cqring_event_overflow(), allowing a locally privileged user to trigger a Denial of Service via the io_uring subsystem. Public advisories (Debian, SUSE, Amazon Linux) indicate patches exist in upda...

CVE-2023-52517

CVE-2023-52517 affects the Linux kernel SPI sun6i driver where a race between DMA RX completion and RX FIFO drain could corrupt data. The fix separates RX FIFO drain from DMA mode by draining RX FIFO only in interrupt mode and by waiting for RX DMA completion before returning when DMA is used, en...

CVE-2023-52596

CVE-2023-52596: Linux kernel sysctl out-of-bounds access when registering empty sysctl directories. Root cause: a check tests the first element of ctl_table for a permanently empty directory, leading to out-of-bounds. Mitigation in the patched code: register_sysctl_mount_point now passes a ctl_ta...

CVE-2025-37856

The CVE-2025-37856 entry pertains to the Linux kernel’s btrfs subsystem, where hardening of block_group::bg_list against list_del() races was applied. The vulnerability centered on potential race conditions between bg_list list_del_init() and operations like btrfs_mark_bg_unused() or btrfs_mark_b...

CVE-2025-39797

CVE-2025-39797 concerns the Linux kernel xfrm duplicate SPI handling. The vulnerability arises when Strongswan triggers an XFRM_NETLINK_ALLOC_SPI request, enabling xfrm_alloc_spi() to return success for an SPI already in use, causing multiple inbound SAs to share the same SPI (distinguished only ...

CVE-2010-3874

CVE-2010-3874: Heap-based buffer overflow in the bcm_connect function of net/can/bcm.c (Broadcast Manager) in the Linux kernel CAN implementation. Affects 64-bit kernels, before 2.6.36.2, enabling local attackers to cause memory corruption and a denial of service via a connect operation. The conn...

CVE-2010-4263

The CVE-2010-4263 issue involves the Intel igb driver (drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c) in the Linux kernel and its handling of VLAN-tagged frames when SR-IOV and promiscuous mode are enabled but no VLANs are registered. In kernels before 2.6.34, processing such frames could trigger a NULL pointer der...

CVE-2021-47142

CVE-2021-47142 affects the Linux kernel DRM/AMDGPU stack. The vulnerability arises from a use-after-free in the amdgpu_ttm_backend path when unbinding/destroying TTM memory; the code forgets to null out ttm->sg, leading to a crash (general protection fault) during sg_free_table and related cle...

CVE-2021-47181

The CVE-2021-47181 issue affects the Linux kernel code path for usb: musb: tusb6010. The root cause is a missing NULL check after platform_get_resource(), which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference if platform_get_resource() returns NULL. Public sources describe the vulnerability and impact as ...

CVE-2021-47407

The CVE-2021-47407 issue is in the Linux kernel's KVM x86 code related to SRCU initialization during page track setup. The root cause is a missing validation of init_srcu_struct()’s return value, which can fail (e.g., due to OOM) and lead to a NULL pointer dereference found by a modified syzkalle...

CVE-2021-47434

CVE-2021-47434 concerns the Linux kernel xHCI host controller where command ring pointer corruption could occur while aborting a command. The issue arises because the 64-bit CRCR is written in two 32-bit writes; when the upper 32 bits are not updated (they may remain zero) due to the command ring...

CVE-2021-47645

CVE-2021-47645 affects the Linux kernel media subsystem (staging: media: zoran). The root cause is a miscalculated buffer index in zoran_reap_stat_com when tmp_dcim=1, which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference. Patches were applied to correct the calculation and add a defensive check to preven...

CVE-2022-48704

CVE-2022-48704 affects the Linux kernel’s DRM/Radeon path. The vulnerability stems from a race/flush issue where the radeon lockup work queue may not be fully flushed before the system enters D3hot, potentially leading to a kernel Oops and a stall in GPU work processing. The described fix adds a ...

CVE-2022-48792

CVE-2022-48792 - Linux kernel (scsi: pm8001): A use-after-free can occur when a sas_task is aborted by the upper layer before I/O completion is handled in mpi_ssp_completion() or mpi_sata_completion(). The two steps (inform upper layer with complete() and release resources in pm8001_ccb_task_free...

CVE-2022-48858

CVE-2022-48858 - Linux kernel mlx5 race (net/mlx5): The vulnerability results from a race on command flush, causing a refcount use-after-free when a command is freed while another process may still access it. The root cause is improper synchronization around command entry refcount, leading to a p...

CVE-2022-48919

CVE-2022-48919 affects the Linux kernel’s CIFS mount flow. The issue is a double-free race in cifs_get_root() when a mount fails inside cifs_smb3_do_mount(); deactivate_locked_super() leads to delayed_free(), potentially freeing resources twice if code continues to the out: path. The vulnerabilit...

CVE-2022-49138

CVE-2022-49138 affects the Linux kernel Bluetooth stack, specifically the hci_event path. The issue arises when multiple conn_complete events for the same handle can cause memory corruption due to repeated registrations; the kernel introduces HCI_CONN_HANDLE_UNSET and checks against HCI_CONN_HAND...

CVE-2022-49139

CVE-2022-49139 affects the Linux kernel Bluetooth stack. The issue occurs in the HCI handling path: upon receiving a HCI_Synchronous_Connection_Complete for a BDADDR of an existing LE connection, with LE link type and a status triggering the second packet-processing case, a NULL pointer dereferen...

CVE-2022-49292

CVE-2022-49292 is tied to the Linux kernel ALSA oss PCM buffer allocation overflow. The vulnerability occurs when snd_pcm_plug_alloc() may allocate an oversized temporary buffer during data conversion if hardware parameters allow larger-than-expected period/buffer sizes, risking an INT_MAX overfl...

CVE-2022-49526

CVE-2022-49526 - Linux kernel md/bitmap issue : In clustered MD (md-cluster) setups, the code path md_bitmap_read_sb can permit a faulty bitmap to pass sanity checks, allowing the chunksize to be assigned even when the bitmap data is invalid. This leads to a division error (DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T)...

CVE-2022-49938

CVE-2022-49938 is a Linux kernel vulnerability in the CIFS SMB2_negotiation path. The issue is a small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate() where, on certain dialect-mismatch failures, the code could exit without freeing the response buffer from mempool due to an incorrect -EIO handling. The fix tigh...

CVE-2023-0030

CVE-2023-0030 describes a use-after-free in the Linux kernel nouveau driver related to triggering a memory overflow that causes nvkm_vma_tail to fail. Affected component: nouveau driver in the Linux kernel; root cause is use-after-free leading to crash and potential local privilege escalation. Pr...

CVE-2023-23001

CVE-2023-23001 affects Linux kernel prior to 5.16.3, where a misinterpretation of regulator_get’s return value in drivers/scsi/ufs/ufs-mediatek.c treats an error pointer as NULL in the error case. This may lead to improper handling in that path. The vulnerability is addressed by the Linux kernel ...

CVE-2024-42135

CVE-2024-42135 concerns the Linux kernel vhost_task handling of SIGKILL. The connected sources confirm a concrete fix: when a SIGKILL is issued, the kernel now (1) marks the worker as killed to prevent new virtqueue usage and new flush operations, (2) fixes the virtqueue-to-worker mapping to stop...

CVE-2024-57875

CVE-2024-57875 affects the Linux kernel block layer, addressing an RCU-protection issue with disk->conv_zones_bitmap. The fix makes disk_zone_is_conv() run under the RCU read lock and adds disk_set_conv_zones_bitmap() to update the pointer via rcu_replace_pointer() under disk_zone_wplugs_lock....

CVE-2025-37983

CVE-2025-37983 is a Linux kernel issue where an inode allocation path could leak a dentry due to an OOM related leak in qibfs. The description confirms the vulnerability was resolved by a fix merged in the kernel ("qibfs: fix another leak"). Public connected sources (Azure Linux, Astra Linux, and...

CVE-2009-3238

CVE-2009-3238 affects the Linux kernel (pre-2.6.30) where get_random_int in drivers/char/random.c produced insufficiently random numbers, enabling prediction of return values and potentially defeating defenses based on randomness. Several OS advisories (e.g., RHSA-2009:1438, ELSA-2009-1106/1438, ...

CVE-2010-1437

CVE-2010-1437 is a race condition in the Linux kernel’s keyring handling (find_keyring_by_name in security/keys/keyring.c) affecting version 2.6.34-rc5 and earlier. A local user can exploit this via keyctl session commands that access a dead keyring being deleted by key_cleanup, leading to memory...

CVE-2013-6381

CVE-2013-6381 describes a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel’s qeth_snmp_command function (drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c) up to version 3.12.1, allowing local users to cause a denial of service (and potentially other impact) via an SNMP ioctl with an incompatible length. Connected documents ...

CVE-2015-4002

CVE-2015-4002 affects the OZWPAN driver in the Linux kernel (drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozusbsvc1.c) up to version 4.0.5. The issue is a length-value handling flaw where certain length values are not sufficiently large, enabling remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash or large loo...

CVE-2021-47113

CVE-2021-47113 affects the Linux kernel's btrfs code. The issue occurs in btrfs_rename_exchange when inserting inode refs for both sides of a rename; if the second insert fails, the first ref becomes dangling, risking a corrupt filesystem. The fix aborts after the first successful inode ref inser...

CVE-2022-48633

CVE-2022-48633: In the Linux kernel, the gma500/psb_gem Unpin path could trigger a WARN_ON (lock->magic != lock) due to ww_mutex being destroyed by drm_gem_object_release(). The fix relocates drm_gem_object_release() to occur after psb_gem_unpin(), preventing the invalid lock state. Affected c...

CVE-2022-48790

CVE-2022-48790 concerns a use-after-free in the Linux kernel nvme path during controller reset while loading, caused by a race between AER submission and ctrl readiness. The fixed patch adds a ctrl state check and ensures the controller state is RESETTING before further AER submissions, along wit...

CVE-2022-48979

CVE-2022-48979 affects the Linux kernel driver path drm/amd/display/dc/dml (DCN32 DML). The root cause is an array indexing error where LinkCapacitySupport is indexed by the number of voltage states instead of the maximum DPPs, leading to an out-of-bounds access. The fix is to declare the array w...

CVE-2022-49335

CVE-2022-49335 concerns the Linux kernel DRM/AMDGPU path. The issue arises when a compute submit command (cs) is sent with 0 chunks, which is illegal and leads to a kernel oops later, specifically a NULL pointer dereference in amdgpu_cs_ioctl. Affected evidence shows a crafted 0-chunk submission ...

CVE-2022-49453

Summary (CVE-2022-49453) : In the Linux kernel, the TI SoC power-domain driver (soc: ti: ti_sci_pm_domains) might dereference a NULL pointer if devm_kcalloc returns NULL. The recommended fix is to check the allocation result and return -ENOMEM, mirroring the handling in earlier code paths. The is...

CVE-2022-49501

CVE-2022-49501 concerns the Linux kernel USB Ethernet (usbnet) path. The root cause is a use-after-free risk during disconnect caused by non-mirroring binding/unbinding order: usbnet_probe() binds then register_netdev(), whereas disconnect() previously unregisters before unbind(), leading to PHY ...

CVE-2024-26770

CVE-2024-26770 concerns the Linux kernel HID for the Nvidia Shield: a missing null-pointer check in LED initialization (led init path) could dereference NULL after devm_kasprintf() returns NULL. The issue arises during LED initialization within the Nvidia Shield HID handling; the CVSSv3.1 vector ...

CVE-2024-42115

Summary of CVE-2024-42115 (Linux kernel, jffs2): The issue is a potential illegal address access in jffs2_free_inode triggered by a race between iget_locked and destroy_inode when memory is not properly initialized. The failing path involves kfree on an inode object whose jffs_inode_info fields a...

CVE-2024-49970

CVE-2024-49970 affects the Linux kernel DRM AMD display path. The issue is a bounds check failure in dcn401_stream_encoder_create for the DCN401 encoder: the stream_enc_regs array, sized for indices 0–3, could be accessed with eng_id = 5, causing a buffer overflow and undefined behavior. The vuln...

CVE-2010-2963

CVE-2010-2963 affects the Linux kernel’s Video4Linux (V4L) implementation on x86_64, where a flaw in the v4l2-compat ioctl32 code fails to validate the destination of a memory copy, enabling a local user to write arbitrary kernel memory via VIDIOCSTUNER on a /dev/video device followed by VIDIOCSM...

CVE-2010-4347

CVE-2010-4347 affects the Linux kernel’s ACPI subsystem. The vulnerability arises in the debugfs interface (custom_method file) which, due to world-writable 0222 permissions, lets a local user place a custom ACPI method in interpreter tables via acpi_debugfs_init in drivers/acpi/debugfs.c. This c...

CVE-2011-4326

CVE-2011-4326 affects the Linux kernel’s UDP fragment handling for IPv6 when UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) is enabled. Specifically, the vulnerability lies in udp6_ufo_fragment in net/ipv6/udp.c, allowing remote attackers to crash the system by sending fragmented IPv6 UDP packets to a bridge. T...

CVE-2015-8963

CVE-2015-8963 : The Linux kernel contains a race condition in kernel/events/core.c related to swevent handling during a CPU unplug operation. Affected: Linux kernel versions before 4.4. Impact: local privilege escalation or denial of service (use‑after‑free) as described in the vulnerability entr...

CVE-2021-47182

The CVE-2021-47182 entry concerns the Linux kernel scsi_mode_sense() implementation. Affected component: scsi core. Issues: improper handling of the MODE SENSE(10) allocation length field (16-bit, truncating lengths >255) and buffer length adjustments that could corrupt memory when len is too ...

CVE-2022-49447

CVE-2022-49447 concerns the Linux kernel on ARM/HiSilicon where of_find_compatible_node increments the device_node refcount but no corresponding of_node_put was invoked, causing a refcount leak. The fix removes the leak by adding of_node_put after of_find_compatible_node. Affected software is the...

CVE-2022-49497

CVE-2022-49497 is a Linux kernel issue in the networking code where two BUG() calls were present in skb_checksum_help(). The vulnerability was resolved by removing these BUG()s and replacing them with WARN_ON_ONCE() so skb_checksum_help() can return an error code instead of triggering a crash whe...