Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• linux-gcp - Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems

Details

Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux
kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use-
after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could possibly
use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-47233)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

• Block layer subsystem;
• Userspace I/O drivers;
• Ceph distributed file system;
• Ext4 file system;
• JFS file system;
• NILFS2 file system;
• Bluetooth subsystem;
• Networking core;
• IPv4 networking;
• IPv6 networking;
• Logical Link layer;
• MAC80211 subsystem;
• Netlink;
• NFC subsystem;
• Tomoyo security module;
  (CVE-2023-52524, CVE-2023-52530, CVE-2023-52601, CVE-2023-52439,
  CVE-2024-26635, CVE-2023-52602, CVE-2024-26614, CVE-2024-26704,
  CVE-2023-52604, CVE-2023-52566, CVE-2021-46981, CVE-2024-26622,
  CVE-2024-26735, CVE-2024-26805, CVE-2024-26801, CVE-2023-52583)