In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow This reverts commit 443a98e649b4 ("soundwire: bus: use pm_runtime_resume_and_get()") Change calls to pm_runtime_resume_and_get() back to pm_runtime_get_sync(). This fixes a usage count underrun caused by doing a pm_runtime_put() even though pm_runtime_resume_and_get() returned an error. The three affected functions ignore -EACCES error from trying to get pm_runtime, and carry on, including a put at the end of the function. But pm_runtime_resume_and_get() does not increment the usage count if it returns an error. So in the -EACCES case you must not call pm_runtime_put(). The documentation for pm_runtime_get_sync() says: "Consider using pm_runtime_resume_and_get() ... as this is likely to result in cleaner code." In this case I don't think it results in cleaner code because the pm_runtime_put() at the end of the function would have to be conditional on the return value from pm_runtime_resume_and_get() at the top of the function. pm_runtime_get_sync() doesn't have this problem because it always increments the count, so always needs a put. The code can just flow through and do the pm_runtime_put() unconditionally.

The AlmaLinux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TuxCare ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1777616064 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix potential double free in     create_var_ref() In create_var_ref(), init_var_ref() is called to initialize the fields of variable     ref_field, which is allocated in the previous function call to create_hist_field(). Function     init_var_ref() allocates the corresponding fields such as ref_field->system, but frees these fields when     the function encounters an error. The caller later calls destroy_hist_field() to conduct error handling,     which frees the fields and the variable itself. This results in double free of the fields which are     already freed in the previous function. Fix this by storing NULL to the corresponding fields when they are     freed in init_var_ref(). (CVE-2022-49410)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdio: fix undefined behavior in     bit shift for __mdiobus_register Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing     significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in     drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:586:27 left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int' Call     Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5 dump_stack+0x15/0x1b ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e
    __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c __mdiobus_register+0x49d/0x4e0     fixed_mdio_bus_init+0xd8/0x12d do_one_initcall+0x76/0x430 kernel_init_freeable+0x3b3/0x422     kernel_init+0x24/0x1e0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> (CVE-2022-49907)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vt: Clear selection before changing     the font When changing the console font with ioctl(KDFONTOP) the new font size can be bigger than the     previous font. A previous selection may thus now be outside of the new screen size and thus trigger out-     of-bounds accesses to graphics memory if the selection is removed in vc_do_resize(). Prevent such out-of-     memory accesses by dropping the selection before the various con_font_set() console handlers are called.
    (CVE-2022-49948)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix double free on     tx path. We see kernel crashes and lockups and KASAN errors related to ax210 firmware crashes. One of the     KASAN dumps pointed at the tx path, and it appears there is indeed a way to double-free an skb. If     iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta returns non-zero, then the 'skb' sent into the method will be freed. But, in case where     we build TSO skb buffer, the skb may also be freed in error case. So, return 0 in that particular error     case and do cleanup manually. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 iwlwifi     0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | tsf hi Read of size 8 at addr ffff88813cfa4ba0 by task btserver/9650 CPU: 4     PID: 9650 Comm: btserver Tainted: G W 5.19.8+ #5 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | time gp1 Hardware     name: Default string Default string/SKYBAY, BIOS 5.12 02/19/2019 Call Trace: <TASK>     dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x6d print_report.cold.12+0xf2/0x684 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x1D0915A8 | time gp2 ?
    __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 kasan_report+0x8b/0x180 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000001 | uCode revision     type ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000048     | uCode version major tcp_update_skb_after_send+0x5d/0x170 __tcp_transmit_skb+0xb61/0x15c0 iwlwifi     0000:06:00.0: 0xDAA05125 | uCode version minor ? __tcp_select_window+0x490/0x490 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0:
    0x00000420 | hw version ? trace_kmalloc_node+0x29/0xd0 ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x12a/0x260 ?     memset+0x1f/0x40 ? __build_skb_around+0x125/0x150 ? __alloc_skb+0x1d4/0x220 ?     skb_zerocopy_clone+0x55/0x230 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00489002 | board version ? kmalloc_reserve+0x80/0x80     ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x60/0xb0 tcp_write_xmit+0x3f1/0x24d0 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034E001C | hcmd ?
    __check_object_size+0x180/0x350 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x24020000 | isr0 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x8a9/0x1520     iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x01400000 | isr1 ? tcp_sendpage+0x50/0x50 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x48F0000A | isr2 ?     lock_release+0xb9/0x400 ? tcp_sendmsg+0x14/0x40 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00C3080C | isr3 ?     lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x114/0x1d0 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00200000 | isr4 ?     rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034A001C | last cmd Id ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50 ?     lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xe/0x200 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x0000C2F0 | wait_event ?
    __local_bh_enable_ip+0x87/0xe0 ? inet_send_prepare+0x220/0x220 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x000000C4 |     l2p_control tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40 sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00010034 | l2p_duration
    __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250 iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000007 | l2p_mhvalid ? __ia32_sys_getpeername+0x40/0x40     iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | l2p_addr_match ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50 ?     rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0     ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400 ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390 ?     ktime_get+0x64/0x130 ? ktime_get+0x8d/0x130 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50 ?     rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50 ?     rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
    __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP:
    0033:0x7f1d126e4531 Code: 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8d 05 35 80 0c 00 41 89 ca 8b 00 85 c0     75 1c 45 31 c9 45 31 c0 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 67 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 83 ec 20     48 89 RSP: 002b:00007ffe21a679d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:
    000000000000ffdc RCX: 00007f1d126e4531 RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 000000000374acf0 RDI: 0000000000000014     RBP: 00007ffe21a67ac0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11:
    0000000000000246 R ---truncated--- (CVE-2022-50248)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmc: rtsx_usb_sdmmc: fix return value     check of mmc_add_host() mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, the memory that     allocated in mmc_alloc_host() will be leaked and it will lead a kernel crash because of deleting not added     device in the remove path. So fix this by checking the return value and calling mmc_free_host() in the     error path, besides, led_classdev_unregister() and pm_runtime_disable() also need be called.
    (CVE-2022-50347)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow This reverts commit     443a98e649b4 (soundwire: bus: use pm_runtime_resume_and_get()) Change calls to     pm_runtime_resume_and_get() back to pm_runtime_get_sync(). This fixes a usage count underrun caused by     doing a pm_runtime_put() even though pm_runtime_resume_and_get() returned an error. The three affected     functions ignore -EACCES error from trying to get pm_runtime, and carry on, including a put at the end of     the function. But pm_runtime_resume_and_get() does not increment the usage count if it returns an error.
    So in the -EACCES case you must not call pm_runtime_put(). The documentation for pm_runtime_get_sync()     says: Consider using pm_runtime_resume_and_get() ... as this is likely to result in cleaner code. In     this case I don't think it results in cleaner code because the pm_runtime_put() at the end of the function     would have to be conditional on the return value from pm_runtime_resume_and_get() at the top of the     function. pm_runtime_get_sync() doesn't have this problem because it always increments the count, so     always needs a put. The code can just flow through and do the pm_runtime_put() unconditionally.
    (CVE-2023-54259)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
353159	AlmaLinux 9.2 [TuxCare] Security Update: bpftool / kernel / kernel-abi-stablelists / kernel-core / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ALMALINUX9.2:CLSA-2026:1777616064)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	Local	high
280701	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54259	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

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