In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handleposixcputimers() and posixcputimerdel()
If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exitnotify() and calls handleposixcputimers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlocktasksighand().
If a concurrent posixcputimerdel() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cputimertaskrcu() and/or locktasksighand() will fail.
Add the tsk->exitstate check into runposixcputimers() to fix this.
This fix is not needed if CONFIGPOSIXCPUTIMERSTASKWORK=y, because exittaskwork() is called before exitnotify(). But the check still makes sense, taskworkadd(&tsk->posixcputimerswork.work) will fail anyway in this case.
crypto: algifaead - Revert to operating out-of-place
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sources
The current USB-audio driver code doesn't check bLength of each descriptor at traversing for clock descriptors. That is, when a device provides a bogus descriptor with a shorter bLength, the driver might hit out-of-bounds reads.
For addressing it, this patch adds sanity checks to the validator functions for the clock descriptor traversal. When the descriptor length is shorter than expected, it's skipped in the loop.
For the clock source and clock multiplier descriptors, we can just check bLength against the sizeof() of each descriptor type. OTOH, the clock selector descriptor of UAC2 and UAC3 has an array of bNrInPins elements and two more fields at its tail, hence those have to be checked in addition to the sizeof() check.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices
A bogus device can provide a bNumConfigurations value that exceeds the initial value used in usbgetconfiguration for allocating dev->config.
This can lead to out-of-bounds accesses later, e.g. in usbdestroyconfiguration.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVCVSUNDEFINED in uvcparseformat
This can lead to out of bounds writes since frames of this type were not taken into account when calculating the size of the frames buffer in uvcparsestreaming.
In ip6appenddata(), when the paged-allocation branch is taken (MSGMORE / NETIFFSG / large fraglen), alloclen and pagedlen are computed as
alloclen = fragheaderlen + transhdrlen; pagedlen = datalen - transhdrlen;
datalen already includes fraggap (datalen = length + fraggap). When fraggap is non-zero, this is not the first skb and transhdrlen is zero. The fraggap bytes carried over from the previous skb are copied just past the fragment headers in the new skb's linear area. The linear area is therefore undersized by fraggap bytes while pagedlen is overstated by the same amount, and the copy writes past skb->end into the trailing skbsharedinfo.
An unprivileged user can trigger this via a UDPv6 socket using MSGMORE together with MSGSPLICEPAGES.
The bad accounting was introduced by commit 773ba4fe9104 ("ipv6: avoid partial copy for zc"). Before commit ce650a166335 ("udp6: Fix ip6appenddata()'s handling of MSGSPLICEPAGES"), the negative copy value caused -EINVAL to be returned. That later commit allowed MSGSPLICEPAGES to proceed in this case, making the corruption triggerable.
The non-paged branch sets alloclen to fraglen, which already accounts for fraggap because datalen does. Bring the paged branch in line by adding fraggap to alloclen and subtracting it from pagedlen.
After this adjustment, copy no longer collapses to -fraggap on the paged path, so remove the stale comment describing that old arithmetic. Since a negative copy is no longer expected for a valid MSGSPLICEPAGES case, remove the MSGSPLICEPAGES exception from the negative copy check.
An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s watchqueue event notification subsystem. This flaw can overwrite parts of the kernel state, potentially allowing a local user to gain privileged access or cause a denial of service on the system.
A flaw was discovered in processing setsockopt IPTSOSETREPLACE (or IP6TSOSETREPLACE) for 32 bit processes on 64 bit systems. This flaw will allow local user to gain privileges or cause a DoS through user name space. This action is usually restricted to root-privileged users but can also be leveraged if the kernel is compiled with CONFIGUSERNS and CONFIGNETNS and the user is granted elevated privileges.
A use-after-free flaw was found in nftables cross-table in the net/netfilter/nftablesapi.c function in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local, privileged attacker to cause a use-after-free problem at the time of table deletion, possibly leading to local privilege escalation.
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nftables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
The nftverdictinit() function allows positive values as drop error within the hook verdict, and hence the nfhookslow() function can cause a double free vulnerability when NFDROP is issued with a drop error which resembles NFACCEPT.
We recommend upgrading past commit f342de4e2f33e0e39165d8639387aa6c19dff660.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, where unauthorized access to the execution of the setuid file with capabilities was found in the Linux kernel’s OverlayFS subsystem in how a user copies a capable file from a nosuid mount into another mount. This uid mapping bug allows a local user to escalate their privileges on the system.
A use after free vulnerability exists in the ALSA PCM package in the Linux Kernel. SNDRVCTLIOCTLELEM{READ|WRITE}32 is missing locks that can be used in a use-after-free that can result in a priviledge escalation to gain ring0 access from the system user. We recommend upgrading past commit 56b88b50565cd8b946a2d00b0c83927b7ebb055e
A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copypagetoiterpipe and pushpipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system.
A vulnerability was found in cgroupreleaseagentwrite in kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, under certain circumstances, the cgroups v1 releaseagent feature can be used to escalate privilege and bypass namespace isolation unexpectedly.
Upstream Commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the legacyparseparam function in the Filesystem Context functionality of the Linux kernel verified the supplied parameters length. An unprivileged (in case of unprivileged user namespaces enabled, otherwise needs namespaced CAPSYSADMIN privilege) local user able to open a filesystem that does not support the Filesystem Context API (and thus fallbacks to legacy handling) could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Last updated 27 August 2026
A double free bug in packetsetring() in net/packet/afpacket.c can be exploited by a local user through crafted syscalls to escalate privileges or deny service. We recommend upgrading kernel past the effected versions or rebuilding past ec6af094ea28f0f2dda1a6a33b14cd57e36a9755
A flaw in the kernels implementation of ptrace which could inadvertantly grant elevated permissions to an attacker who could abuse the relationship between tracer and the process being traced.
The mechanism used to link the process requesting the ptrace and the process being ptraced could allow a local user to obtain root level priviledges by creating an opportunity to abuse the frequently used pattern of dropping privileges and then execve a child with reduced privileges/permissions.
References: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1903 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.17 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6994eefb0053799d2e07cd140df6c2ea106c41ee https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6994eefb0053799d2e07cd140df6c2ea106c41ee
A flaw was found in the Linux kernels with commit b6a2fea39318 ("mm: variable length argument support", from July 19, 2007) but without commit da029c11e6b1 ("exec:Limit arg stack to at most 75% of STKLIM", from July 7, 2017). An integer overflow in the Linux kernel's createelftables() function. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability via a SUID-root binary and obtain full root privileges.
Referenced commits: b6a2fea39318 ("mm: variable length argument support", from July 19, 2007) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba
da029c11e6b1 ("exec: Limit arg stack to at most 75% of STKLIM", from July 7, 2017) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/da029c11e6b12f321f36dac8771e833b65cec962
Additional references: https://www.qualys.com/2018/09/25/cve-2018-14634/mutagen-astronomy-integer-overflow-linux-createelftables-cve-2018-14634.txt
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel loaded ELF executables. Provided that an application was built as Position Independent Executable (PIE), the loader could allow part of that application's data segment to map over the memory area reserved for its stack, potentially resulting in memory corruption. An unprivileged local user with access to SUID (or otherwise privileged) PIE binary could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Upstream patch:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86
A race condition was found in the way Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled breakage of the read only private mappings COW situation on write access.
An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
Red Hat is aware of this issue and if you have questions about the affectedness of your system please contact Red Hat Support. For additional information see https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661
A flaw was found in the way pi to pi futex requeueing was handled.
A local unprivileged user can use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system.
Last updated 6 February 2025
Integer overflow in the fbmmap function in drivers/video/fbmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9, as used in a certain Motorola build of Android 4.1.2 and other products, allows local users to create a read-write memory mapping for the entirety of kernel memory, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted /dev/graphics/fb0 mmap2 system calls, as demonstrated by the Motochopper pwn program.
A flaw was found in the way index into perfsweventenabled array was sanitized.
A local unprivileged user can use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system.
Introduced by: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b0a873ebbf87bf38bf70b5e39a7cadc96099fa13
Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8176cced706b5e5d15887584150764894e94e02f
References: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1304.1/03652.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703758 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/121616/semtex.c
Description of problem: The handling functions for sending and receiving messages, in rdspagecopyuser(), use the unchecked copyuserinatomic functions without any access checks on user-provided pointers. As a result, by passing a kernel address as an iovec base address in recvmsg-style calls, a local user can overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, which can easily be used to escalate privileges to root.
Introduced via 7875e18e (v2.6.30-rc1).
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg of Virtual Security Research for reporting this issue.