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Debian: DSA-5480-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2023
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 highlights critical flaws in the kernel, recommending immediate updates for all affected users.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

CVE-2022-4269

William Zhao discovered that a flaw in the Traffic Control (TC)
subsystem when using a specific networking configuration
(redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred"),
may allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service
(triggering a CPU soft lockup).

CVE-2022-39189

Jann Horn discovered that TLB flush operations are mishandled in the
KVM subsystem in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations, which may
allow an unprivileged guest user to compromise the guest kernel.

CVE-2023-1206

It was discovered that the networking stack permits attackers to
force hash collisions in the IPv6 connection lookup table, which may
result in denial of service (significant increase in the cost of
lookups, increased CPU utilization).

CVE-2023-1380

Jisoo Jang reported a heap out-of-bounds read in the brcmfmac Wi-Fi
driver. On systems using this driver, a local user could exploit
this to read sensitive information or to caus...

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Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2022-4269 CVE-2022-39189 CVE-2023-1206 CVE-2023-1380

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