A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.

kernel: off-path attacker may inject data or terminate victim's TCP session kernel: race condition in VT_RESIZEX ioctl when vc_cons[i].d is already NULL leading to NULL pointer dereference kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() kernel: memory leak for large arguments in video_usercopy function in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c kernel: veth: ensure skb entering GRO are not cloned. kernel: scsi: scsi_debug: Fix type in min_t to avoid stack OOB kernel: smb2_ioctl_query_info NULL pointer dereference kernel: NULL pointer dereference in udf_expand_file_adinicbdue() during writeback kernel: swiotlb information leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE kernel: uninitialized registers on stack in nft_do_chain can cause kernel pointer leakage to UM kernel: race condition in snd_pcm_hw_free leading to use-after-free kernel: use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c kernel: KVM: cmpxchg_gpte can write to pfns outside the userspace region kernel: use-after-free and memory errors in ext4 when mounting and operating on a corrupted image kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_push in virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c kernel: NULL pointer dereference in x86_emulate_insn may lead to DoS kernel: buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast() kernel: LoadPin bypass via dm-verity table reload kernel: nf_tables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation…

kernel: off-path attacker may inject data or terminate victim's TCP session kernel: race condition in VT_RESIZEX ioctl when vc_cons[i].d is already NULL leading to NULL pointer dereference kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() kernel: memory leak for large arguments in video_usercopy function in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c kernel: veth: ensure skb entering GRO are not cloned. kernel: inet: fully convert sk->sk_rx_dst to RCU rules kernel: NFSD: Fix READDIR buffer overflow kernel: cpufreq: CPPC: Fix potential memleak in cppc_cpufreq_cpu_init kernel: nvme-rdma: destroy cm id before destroy qp to avoid use after free kernel: regmap: Fix possible double-free in regcache_rbtree_exit() kernel: ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered kernel: scsi: scsi_debug: Fix type in min_t to avoid stack OOB kernel: KVM: x86/mmu: Zap _all_ roots when unmapping gfn range in TDP MMU kernel: udmabuf: validate ubuf->pagecount kernel: drm/virtio: Ensure that objs is not NULL in virtio_gpu_array_put_free() kernel: smb2_ioctl_query_info NULL pointer dereference kernel: NULL pointer dereference in udf_expand_file_adinicbdue() during writeback kernel: swiotlb information leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE kernel: uninitialized registers on stack in nft_do_chain can cause kernel pointer leakage to UM kernel: race condition in snd_pcm_hw_free leading to use-after-free kernel: use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c kernel: KVM: cm…

Security update for the Linux Kernel

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-hwe-edge, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.0, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.3, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-5.3, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-azure-edge, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.3, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gke-4.15, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: linux-gke-5.4 and 50 more

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.

Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle im Linux Kernel ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.