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BELL-CVE-2023-53798

Affected: Alpaquita:stream: linux-lts

EUVD-2026-312262

fkie_cve-2023-53798

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ethtool: Fix uninitialized number of lanes

It is not possible to set the number of lanes when setting link modes using the legacy IOCTL ethtool interface. Since 'struct ethtool_link_ksettings' is not initialized in this path, drivers receive an uninitialized number of lanes in 'struct ethtool_link_ksettings::lanes'.

When this information is later queried from drivers, it results in the ethtool code making decisions based on uninitialized memory, leading to the following KMSAN splat [1]. In practice, this most likely only happens with the tun driver that simply returns whatever it got in the set operation.

As far as I can tell, this uninitialized memory is not leaked to user space thanks to the 'ethtool_ops->cap_link_lanes_supported' check in linkmodes_prepare_data().

Fix by initializing the structure in the IOCTL path. Did not find any more call sites that pass an uninitialized structure when calling 'ethtool_ops::set_link_ksettings()'.

[1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ethnl_update_linkmodes net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:273 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ethnl_set_linkmodes+0x190b/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:333 ethnl_update_linkmodes net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:273 [inline] ethnl_set_linkmodes+0x190b/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:333 ethnl_default_set_doit+0x88d/0xde0 net/ethtool/netlink.c:640 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:968 [inline] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.…

GHSA-rhrj-6hqh-9pgr

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ethtool: Fix uninitialized number of lanes

As far as I can tell, this uninitialized memory is not leaked to user space thanks to the 'ethtool_ops->cap_link_lanes_supported' check in linkmodes_prepare_data().

Fix by initializing the structure in the IOCTL path. Did not find any more call sites that pass an uninitialized structure when calling 'ethtool_ops::set_link_ksettings()'.

RHSA-2024:3138 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

kernel: OOB writes in parse_hid_report_descriptor in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c kernel: out of bounds read in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c kernel: use-after-free in read in vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl kernel: a race out-of-bound read in vt kernel: improper input validation may lead to privilege escalation kernel: Linux ebpf logic vulnerability leads to critical memory read and write gaining root privileges kernel: use-after-free in l1oip timer handlers kernel: local privileges escalation in kernel/bpf/verifier.c kernel: integer overflow in l2cap_config_req() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix u8 overflow kernel: highmem: fix checks in __kmap_local_sched_{in,out} kernel: mm/slub: add missing TID updates on slab deactivation kernel: VMCI: Use threaded irqs instead of tasklets kernel: ACPI: APEI: Fix integer overflow in ghes_estatus_pool_init() kernel: tty: n_gsm: add sanity check for gsm->receive in gsm_receive_buf() kernel: tty: n_gsm: fix deadlock and link starvation in outgoing data path kernel: jbd2: fix assertion 'jh->b_frozen_data == NULL' failure when journal aborted kernel: usb: host: Fix refcount leak in ehci_hcd_ppc_of_probe kernel: media: dvbdev: adopts refcnt to avoid UAF kernel: ext4: fix delayed allocation bug in ext4_clu_mapped for bigalloc + inline kernel: ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value kernel: ext4: fix null-ptr-deref in ext4_write_info kernel: ext4: init quota for 'old.inode' in 'ext4_rename' kern…

RXSA-2024:3138 — Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Affected: Rocky Linux:8: kernel

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux SIG Cloud 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53798

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 110 more

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: Fix uninitialized number of lanes It is not possible to set the number of lanes when setting link modes using the legacy IOCTL ethtool interface. Since 'struct ethtool_link_ksettings' is not initialized in this path, drivers receive an uninitialized number of lanes in 'struct ethtool_link_ksettings::lanes'. When this information is later queried from drivers, it results in the ethtool code making decisions based on uninitialized memory, leading to the following KMSAN splat [1]. In practice, this most likely only happens with the tun driver that simply returns whatever it got in the set operation. As far as I can tell, this uninitialized memory is not leaked to user space thanks to the 'ethtool_ops->cap_link_lanes_supported' check in linkmodes_prepare_data(). Fix by initializing the structure in the IOCTL path. Did not find any more call sites that pass an uninitialized structure when calling 'ethtool_ops::set_link_ksettings()'. [1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ethnl_update_linkmodes net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:273 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ethnl_set_linkmodes+0x190b/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:333 ethnl_update_linkmodes net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:273 [inline] ethnl_set_linkmodes+0x190b/0x19d0 net/ethtool/linkmodes.c:333 ethnl_default_set_doit+0x88d/0xde0 net/ethtool/netlink.c:640 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:968 [inline] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048…

WID-SEC-W-2025-2765 — Linux Kernel: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service

Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Linux Kernel ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.