An issue was discovered in aiopoll() in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.0.4. A file may be released by aiopollwake() if an expected event is triggered immediately (e.g., by the close of a pair of pipes) after the return of vfspoll(), and this will cause a use-after-free.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A heap based buffer overflow in mwifiexuapparsetailies function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c might lead to memory corruption and possibly other consequences.

systemd 242 changes the VT1 mode upon a logout, which allows attackers to read cleartext passwords in certain circumstances, such as watching a shutdown, or using Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F2. This occurs because the KDGKBMODE (aka current keyboard mode) check is mishandled.

A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network.

An issue was discovered in rdstcpkillsock in net/rds/tcp.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.8. There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.

It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can create a SUID/SGID binary that would be allowed to run as the transient service UID/GID even after the service is terminated. A local attacker may use this flaw to access resources that will be owned by a potentially different service in the future, when the UID/GID will be recycled.

It was discovered that a systemd service that uses DynamicUser property can get new privileges through the execution of SUID binaries, which would allow to create binaries owned by the service transient group with the setgid bit set. A local attacker may use this flaw to access resources that will be owned by a potentially different service in the future, when the GID will be recycled.

An issue where a provided address with accessok() is not checked was discovered in i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915gemexecbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, resulting in a Denial of Service or privilege escalation.

An issue was discovered in getvdevportnodeinfo in arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.6. There is an unchecked kstrdupconst of nodeinfo->vdevport.name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash).

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.5, attackers can trigger a drivers/char/ipmi/ipmimsghandler.c use-after-free and OOPS by arranging for certain simultaneous execution of the code, as demonstrated by a "service ipmievd restart" loop.

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.12, net/ipv4/netfilter/nfnatsnmpbasicmain.c in the SNMP NAT module has insufficient ASN.1 length checks (aka an array index error), making out-of-bounds read and write operations possible, leading to an OOPS or local privilege escalation. This affects snmpversion and snmphelper.

An infinite loop issue was found in the vhostnet kernel module in Linux Kernel up to and including v5.1-rc6, while handling incoming packets in handlerx(). It could occur if one end sends packets faster than the other end can process them. A guest user, maybe remote one, could use this flaw to stall the vhostnet kernel thread, resulting in a DoS scenario.

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

It was found that the cgroup limitation of system resources used by Kubernetes can be bypassed. A guest pod can be used to consume a large amount of system memory.

A suggested upstream patch set:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190401113110.GA20717@hmswarspite.think-freely.org/T/#u

A race condition in perfeventopen() allows local attackers to leak sensitive data from setuid programs. As no relevant locks (in particular the credguardmutex) are held during the ptracemayaccess() call, it is possible for the specified target task to perform an execve() syscall with setuid execution before perfeventalloc() actually attaches to it, allowing an attacker to bypass the ptracemayaccess() check and the perfeventexittask(current) call that is performed in installexeccreds() during privileged execve() calls.

A flaw was found in OpenSSL versions from 1.1.0 through 1.1.0i inclusive and version 1.1.1. The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key.

References: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20181029.txt

Upstream Patch: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=56fb454d281a023b3f950d969693553d3f3ceea1 https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b1d6d55ece1c26fa2829e2b819b038d7b6d692b4

A flaw was found in OpenSSL versions from 1.1.0 through 1.1.0i inclusive, from 1.0.2 through 1.0.2p inclusive and version 1.1.1. The OpenSSL DSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key.

Reference: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20181030.txt

Upstream Patches: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=43e6a58d4991a451daf4891ff05a48735df871ac https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=8abfe72e8c1de1b95f50aa0d9134803b4d00070f https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=ef11e19d1365eea2b1851e6f540a0bf365d303e7 https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b96bebacfe814deb99fb64a3ed2296d95c573600

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSL 1.0.2. When an application encounters a fatal protocol error and then calls SSLshutdown() twice, OpenSSL can respond differently to the calling application if a 0 byte record is received with invalid padding compared to if a 0 byte record is received with an invalid MAC. This difference in behaviour can be detected by a remote peer, then this amounts to a padding oracle that could be used to decrypt data. In order for this to be exploitable "non-stitched" ciphersuites must be in use. Also the application must call SSLshutdown() twice even if a protocol error has occurred (applications should not do this but some do anyway). AEAD ciphersuites are not impacted. This issue does not impact OpenSSL 1.1.1 or 1.1.0.

Upstream bug: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20190226.txt

Upstream Patch: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/e9bbefbf0f24c57645e7ad6a5a71ae649d18ac8e

Last updated 25 August 2025

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel vfio interface implementation that permits violation of the user's locked memory limit. If a device is bound to a vfio driver, such as vfio-pci, and the local attacker is administratively granted ownership of the device, it may cause a system memory exhaustion and thus a denial of service (DoS).

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q2/6

A suggested fix:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/155414977872.12780.13728555131525362206.stgit@gimli.home/T/#u

Remotely observable behaviour in auth-gss2.c in OpenSSH through 7.8 could be used by remote attackers to detect existence of users on a target system when GSS2 is in use. NOTE: the discoverer states 'We understand that the OpenSSH developers do not want to treat such a username enumeration (or "oracle") as a vulnerability.'

Last updated 25 August 2025