An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.7. xdpumemreg in net/xdp/xdpumem.c has an out-of-bounds write (by a user with the CAPNETADMIN capability) because of a lack of headroom validation.

A use-after-free flaw was found in usbsgcancel in drivers/usb/core/message.c in USB core subsystem. This flaw could allow a local attacker with special user privilege (or root) to crash the system due to a race problem in scatter-gather cancellation and transfer completion in usbsgwait. This vulnerability can even lead to a kernel information leak problem .

Here usbsgcancel() does not take any reference to the transfer and there is nothing to prevent the URBs from being deallocated while the routine is trying to use them.

Taking a reference by incrementing the transfer's io->count field while the cancellation is in progress and decrementing it afterwards can be way to address this. The transfer's URBs are not deallocated until io->complete is triggered, which happens when io->count reaches zero. ~~~ BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomicread include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:26 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in usbhcdunlinkurb+0x5f/0x170 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1607 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888065379610 by task kworker/u4:1/27 ~~~

References: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.6.8 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/23/52

Upstream commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=056ad39ee9253873522f6469c3364964a322912b

In the Linux kernel through 5.4.6, there are information leaks of uninitialized memory to a USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/kvaserusb/kvaserusbleaf.c driver, aka CID-da2311a6385c.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s scheduler, where it can allow attackers to cause a denial of service against non-CPU-bound applications by generating a workload that triggers unwanted scheduling slice expiration. A local attacker who can trigger a specific workload type could abuse this technique to trigger a system to be seen as degraded, and possibly trigger workload-rebalance in systems that use the slice-expiration metric as a measure of system health.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The rtlusbprobe function mishandles resource cleanup on error. An attacker able to induce the error conditions could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Last updated 9 September 2026

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A memory leak in the adisupdatescanmode() function in drivers/iio/imu/adisbuffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-ab612b1daf41.

A memory leak in the gscanopen() function in drivers/net/can/usb/gsusb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering usbsubmiturb() failures, aka CID-fb5be6a7b486.

A memory leak in the cx23888irprobe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifoalloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.

A memory leak in the rpmsgeptdevwriteiter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsgchar.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copyfromiterfull() failures, aka CID-bbe692e349e2.

Expat (aka libexpat) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a realloc misbehavior issue in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a the application to crash.

expat (libexpat) is susceptible to a software flaw that causes process interruption. When processing a large number of prefixed XML attributes on a single tag can libexpat can terminate unexpectedly due to integer overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability, confidentiality and integrity.

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Last updated 29 November 2024

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in cpia2exit() in drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2v4l.c that will cause denial of service, aka CID-dea37a972655.

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