A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack was found in the mlx5 driver in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest VM using virtio-net can crash the host by sending a short packet (i.e. size < ETHHLEN). The packet may traverse through vhost-net, macvtap and vlan without any validation/drop. When this packet is presented to mlx5 driver on the host side, the kernel panic happens since mlx5core assumes the frame size is always >= ETHHLEN.

This vulnerability affects both drivers/net/tun.c and drivers/net/tap.c. CVE-2024-41091 has been assigned to the TUN side of the issue.

Reference: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/24/4

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack was found in the mlx5 driver in the Linux kernel. A KVM guest VM using virtio-net can crash the host by sending a short packet (i.e. size < ETHHLEN). The packet may traverse through vhost-net, macvtap and vlan without any validation/drop. When this packet is presented to mlx5 driver on the host side, the kernel panic happens, since mlx5core assumes the frame size is always >= ETHHLEN.

This vulnerability affects both drivers/net/tun.c and drivers/net/tap.c. CVE-2024-41090 has been assigned to the TAP side of the issue.

Reference: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/24/4