Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks.

This update is not yet available for the armel (ARM EABI soft-float) architecture.

CVE-2020-24586, CVE-2020-24587, CVE-2020-26147

Mathy Vanhoef discovered that many Wi-Fi implementations, including Linux's mac80211, did not correctly implement reassembly of fragmented packets. In some circumstances, an attacker within range of a network could exploit these flaws to forge arbitrary packets and/or to access sensitive data on that network.

CVE-2020-24588

Mathy Vanhoef discovered that most Wi-Fi implementations, including Linux's mac80211, did not authenticate the 'is aggregated' packet header flag. An attacker within range of a network could exploit this to forge arbitrary packets on that network.

CVE-2020-25670, CVE-2020-25671, CVE-2021-23134

kiyin (&#x5C39;&#x4EAE;) of TenCent discovered several reference counting bugs in the NFC LLCP implementation which could lead to use-after-free. A local user could exploit these for denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

Nadav Markus and Or Cohen of Palo Alto Networks discovered that the original fixes for these introduced a new bug that could result in use-after-free and double-free. This has also been fixed.

CVE-2020-25672

kiyin (&#x5C39;&#x4EAE;) of TenCent discovered a memory leak in the NFC LLCP implementation. A local user could exploit this for denial of service (memory exhaustion).

CVE-2020-26139

Mathy Vanhoef discovered that a bug in some Wi-Fi implementations, including Linux's mac80211. When operating in AP mode, they would forward EAPOL frames from one client to another while the sender was not yet authenticated. An attacker within range of a network could use this for denial of service or as an aid to exploiting other vulnerabilities.

CVE-2020-26558, CVE-2021-0129

Researchers at ANSSI discovered vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth Passkey authentication method, and in Linux's implementation of it. An attacker within range of two Bluetooth devices while they pair using Passkey authentication could exploit this to obtain the shared secret (Passkey) and then impersonate either of the devices to each other.

CVE-2020-29374

Jann Horn of Google reported a flaw in Linux's virtual memory management. A parent and child process initially share all their memory, but when either writes to a shared page, the page is duplicated and unshared (copy-on-write). However, in case an operation such as vmsplice() required the kernel to take an additional reference to a shared page, and a copy-on-write occurs during this operation, the kernel might have accessed the wrong process's memory. For some programs, this could lead to an information leak or data corruption.

CVE-2020-36322, CVE-2021-28950

The syzbot tool found that the FUSE (filesystem-in-user-space) implementation did not correctly handle a FUSE server returning invalid attributes for a file. A local user permitted to run a FUSE server could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

The original fix for this introduced a different potential denial of service (infinite loop in kernel space), which has also been fixed.

CVE-2021-3428

Wolfgang Frisch reported a potential integer overflow in the ext4 filesystem driver. A user permitted to mount arbitrary filesystem images could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2021-3483

&#x9A6C;&#x54F2;&#x5B87; (Zheyu Ma) reported a bug in the 'nosy' driver for TI PCILynx FireWire controllers, which could lead to list corruption and a use-after-free. On a system that uses this driver, local users granted access to /dev/nosy could exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2021-3564, CVE-2021-3573, CVE-2021-32399

The BlockSec team discovered several race conditions in the Bluetooth subsystem that could lead to a use-after-free or double-free. A local user could exploit these to caue a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2021-3587

Active Defense Lab of Venustech discovered a potential NULL pointer dereference in the NFC LLCP implementation. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2021-20292

It was discovered that the TTM buffer allocation API used by GPU drivers did not handle allocation failures in the way that most drivers expected, resulting in a double-free on failure. A local user on a system using one of these drivers could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or for privilege escalation. The API has been changed to match driver expectations.

CVE-2021-23133

Or Cohen of Palo Alto Networks discovered a race condition in the SCTP implementation, which can lead to list corruption. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2021-28660

It was discovered that the rtl8188eu WiFi driver did not correctly limit the length of SSIDs copied into scan results. An attacker within WiFi range could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly to execute code on a vulnerable system.

CVE-2021-28688 (XSA-371)

It was discovered that the original fix for CVE-2021-26930 (XSA-365) introduced a potential resource leak. A malicious guest could presumably exploit this to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) within the host.

CVE-2021-28964

Zygo Blaxell reported a race condition in the Btrfs driver which can lead to an assertion failure. On systems using Btrfs, a local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2021-28971

Vince Weaver reported a bug in the performance event handler for Intel PEBS. A workaround for a hardware bug on Intel CPUs codenamed 'Haswell' and earlier could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. On systems with the affected CPUs, if users are permitted to access performance events, a local user may exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash).

By default, unprivileged users do not have access to performance events, which mitigates this issue. This is controlled by the kernel.perf_event_paranoid sysctl.

CVE-2021-29154

It was discovered that the Extended BPF (eBPF) JIT compiler for x86_64 generated incorrect branch instructions in some cases. On systems where eBPF JIT is enabled, users could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the kernel.

By default, eBPF JIT is disabled, mitigating this issue.
This is controlled by the net.core.bpf_jit_enable sysctl.

CVE-2021-29265

The syzbot tool found a race condition in the USB/IP host (server) implementation which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference. On a system acting as a USB/IP host, a client can exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2021-29647

The syzbot tool found an information leak in the Qualcomm IPC Router (qrtr) implementation.

This protocol is not enabled in Debian's official kernel configurations.

CVE-2021-29650

It was discovered that a data race in the netfilter subsystem could lead to a NULL pointer dereference during replacement of a table. A local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability in any user namespace could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

By default, unprivileged users cannot create user namespaces, which mitigates this issue. This is controlled by the kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone sysctl.

CVE-2021-30002

Arnd Bergmann and the syzbot tool found a memory leak in the Video4Linux (v4l) subsystem. A local user permitted to access video devices (by default, any member of the 'video' group) could exploit this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

CVE-2021-31916

Dan Carpenter reported incorrect parameter validation in the device-mapper (dm) subsystem, which could lead to a heap buffer overrun. However, only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (i.e.
root-equivalent) could trigger this bug, so it did not have any security impact in this kernel version.

CVE-2021-33034

The syzbot tool found a bug in the Bluetooth subsystem that could lead to a use-after-free. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.272-1. This update additionally includes many more bug fixes from stable updates 4.9.259-4.9.272 inclusive.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

For the detailed security status of linux please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.268-205.500. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1761 advisory.

  - The BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.17 mishandles situations with a long jump over an     instruction sequence where inner instructions require substantial expansions into multiple BPF     instructions, leading to an overflow. This affects kernel/bpf/core.c and net/core/filter.c.
    (CVE-2018-25020)

  - An issue was discovered in the FUSE filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.10.6, aka     CID-5d069dbe8aaf. fuse_do_getattr() calls make_bad_inode() in inappropriate situations, causing a system     crash. NOTE: the original fix for this vulnerability was incomplete, and its incompleteness is tracked as     CVE-2021-28950. (CVE-2020-36322)

  - fs/nfs/nfs4client.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4 has incorrect connection-setup ordering, which     allows operators of remote NFSv4 servers to cause a denial of service (hanging of mounts) by arranging for     those servers to be unreachable during trunking detection. (CVE-2021-38199)

  - A flaw null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel UDF file system functionality was found in the way     user triggers udf_file_write_iter function for the malicious UDF image. A local user could use this flaw     to crash the system. Actual from Linux kernel 4.2-rc1 till 5.17-rc2. (CVE-2022-0617)

  - An issue was discovered in fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. If an application sets the     O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a     regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file     descriptor. (CVE-2022-24448)

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

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5096 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.7.3, related to mm/gup.c and mm/huge_memory.c. The     get_user_pages (aka gup) implementation, when used for a copy-on-write page, does not properly consider     the semantics of read operations and therefore can grant unintended write access, aka CID-17839856fd58.
    (CVE-2020-29374)

  - An issue was discovered in the FUSE filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.10.6, aka     CID-5d069dbe8aaf. fuse_do_getattr() calls make_bad_inode() in inappropriate situations, causing a system     crash. NOTE: the original fix for this vulnerability was incomplete, and its incompleteness is tracked as     CVE-2021-28950. (CVE-2020-36322)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A corrupted timer tree caused the task wakeup to be missing in the     timerqueue_add function in lib/timerqueue.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with special user     privileges to cause a denial of service, slowing and eventually stopping the system while running OSP.
    (CVE-2021-20317)

  - A race condition accessing file object in the Linux kernel OverlayFS subsystem was found in the way users     do rename in specific way with OverlayFS. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2021-20321)

  - A flaw in the processing of received ICMP errors (ICMP fragment needed and ICMP redirect) in the Linux     kernel functionality was found to allow the ability to quickly scan open UDP ports. This flaw allows an     off-path remote user to effectively bypass the source port UDP randomization. The highest threat from this     vulnerability is to confidentiality and possibly integrity, because software that relies on UDP source     port randomization are indirectly affected as well. (CVE-2021-20322)

  - A double free bug in packet_set_ring() in net/packet/af_packet.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 (CVE-2021-22600)

  - Rogue backends can cause DoS of guests via high frequency events T[his CNA information record relates to     multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Xen offers the     ability to run PV backends in regular unprivileged guests, typically referred to as driver domains.
    Running PV backends in driver domains has one primary security advantage: if a driver domain gets     compromised, it doesn't have the privileges to take over the system. However, a malicious driver domain     could try to attack other guests via sending events at a high frequency leading to a Denial of Service in     the guest due to trying to service interrupts for elongated amounts of time. There are three affected     backends: * blkfront patch 1, CVE-2021-28711 * netfront patch 2, CVE-2021-28712 * hvc_xen (console) patch     3, CVE-2021-28713 (CVE-2021-28711, CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)

  - Guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory T[his CNA information record     relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.]     Incoming data packets for a guest in the Linux kernel's netback driver are buffered until the guest is     ready to process them. There are some measures taken for avoiding to pile up too much data, but those can     be bypassed by the guest: There is a timeout how long the client side of an interface can stop consuming     new packets before it is assumed to have stalled, but this timeout is rather long (60 seconds by default).
    Using a UDP connection on a fast interface can easily accumulate gigabytes of data in that time.
    (CVE-2021-28715) The timeout could even never trigger if the guest manages to have only one free slot in     its RX queue ring page and the next package would require more than one free slot, which may be the case     when using GSO, XDP, or software hashing. (CVE-2021-28714) (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

  - An issue was discovered in fs/fuse/fuse_i.h in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. A stall on CPU can occur     because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode, aka CID-775c5033a0d1. (CVE-2021-28950)

  - A flaw use-after-free in function sco_sock_sendmsg() of the Linux kernel HCI subsystem was found in the     way user calls ioct UFFDIO_REGISTER or other way triggers race condition of the call sco_conn_del()     together with the call sco_sock_sendmsg() with the expected controllable faulting memory page. A     privileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
    (CVE-2021-3640)

  - A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function in     drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
    This vulnerability is similar with the older CVE-2019-18808. (CVE-2021-3744)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem in the way user calls connect to     the socket and disconnect simultaneously due to a race condition. This flaw allows a user to crash the     system or escalate their privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality,     integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3752)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A use-after-free vulnerability in the NFC stack can lead to a threat     to confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. (CVE-2021-3760)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP     association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and     the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses. (CVE-2021-3772)

  - arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c in the Linux kernel before 5.4.10 can generate undesirable machine code when     transforming unprivileged cBPF programs, allowing execution of arbitrary code within the kernel context.
    This occurs because conditional branches can exceed the 128 KB limit of the MIPS architecture.
    (CVE-2021-38300)

  - A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some     regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the     memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data. (CVE-2021-4002)

  - A read-after-free memory flaw was found in the Linux kernel's garbage collection for Unix domain socket     file handlers in the way users call close() and fget() simultaneously and can potentially trigger a race     condition. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
    This flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 5.16-rc4. (CVE-2021-4083)

  - prealloc_elems_and_freelist in kernel/bpf/stackmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.12 allows     unprivileged users to trigger an eBPF multiplication integer overflow with a resultant out-of-bounds     write. (CVE-2021-41864)

  - The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.14.13 has a buffer overflow related to     drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avc_ca_pmt     mishandles bounds checking. (CVE-2021-42739)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.14.15. There is an array-index-out-of-bounds flaw in     the detach_capi_ctr function in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c. (CVE-2021-43389)

  - In the Linux kernel through 5.15.2, hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait in     drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c allows an attacker (who can introduce a     crafted device) to trigger an out-of-bounds write via a crafted length value. (CVE-2021-43975)

  - In the Linux kernel through 5.15.2, mwifiex_usb_recv in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows     an attacker (who can connect a crafted USB device) to cause a denial of service (skb_over_panic).
    (CVE-2021-43976)

  - A use-after-free exists in drivers/tee/tee_shm.c in the TEE subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11.
    This occurs because of a race condition in tee_shm_get_from_id during an attempt to free a shared memory     object. (CVE-2021-44733)

  - pep_sock_accept in net/phonet/pep.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.8 has a refcount leak.
    (CVE-2021-45095)

  - In __f2fs_setxattr in fs/f2fs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11, there is an out-of-bounds     memory access when an inode has an invalid last xattr entry. (CVE-2021-45469)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the
    __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
    (CVE-2021-45480)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove in drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c     in memstick in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, a local attacker with a user privilege may impact system     Confidentiality. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.14 rc1. (CVE-2022-0487)

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's cgroup_release_agent_write in the     kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups     v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.
    (CVE-2022-0492)

  - A flaw null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel UDF file system functionality was found in the way     user triggers udf_file_write_iter function for the malicious UDF image. A local user could use this flaw     to crash the system. Actual from Linux kernel 4.2-rc1 till 5.17-rc2. (CVE-2022-0617)

  - An issue was discovered in fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. If an application sets the     O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a     regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file     descriptor. (CVE-2022-24448)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in     drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c. (CVE-2022-24959)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB     Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array     index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.
    (CVE-2022-25258)

  - An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/function/rndis.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The     RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command. Attackers can obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory. (CVE-2022-25375)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
150985	Debian DLA-2689-1 : linux security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/24/2021	12/21/2023	high
158720	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2022-1761)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	3/8/2022	7/8/2022	high
158761	Debian DSA-5096-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/9/2022	3/27/2024	high
178888	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2444)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	7/26/2023	1/16/2024	critical

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