The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in
the Android binder driver. A local user on a system with this
driver enabled could use this to cause a denial of service (memory
corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.
However, this driver is not enabled on Debian packaged kernels.
CVE-2019-10220
Various developers and researchers found that if a crafted file- system or malicious file server presented a directory with
filenames including a '/' character, this could confuse and
possibly defeat security checks in applications that read the
directory.
The kernel will now return an error when reading such a directory,
rather than passing the invalid filenames on to user-space.
CVE-2019-14895, CVE-2019-14901
ADLab of Venustech discovered potential heap buffer overflows in
the mwifiex wifi driver. On systems using this driver, a
malicious Wireless Access Point or adhoc/P2P peer could use these
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