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Critical USN-7021-3 8 CVEs

linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 vulnerabilities

Published Sep 26, 2024 · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Summary

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- GPU drivers;
- BTRFS file system;
- F2FS file system;
- GFS2 file system;
- BPF subsystem;
- Netfilter;
- RxRPC session sockets;
- Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;
(CVE-2024-39494, CVE-2024-38570, CVE-2024-27012, CVE-2024-39496,
CVE-2024-42160, CVE-2024-41009, CVE-2024-42228, CVE-2024-26677)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-122.132~20.04.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-122.132

Vulnerabilities 8

  • Critical 9.8

    gfs2: Fix potential glock use-after-free on unmount

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix potential glock use-after-free on unmount When a DLM lockspace is released and there ares still locks in that lockspace, DLM will unlock those locks automatically. Commit fb6791d100…

  • High 7.8

    netfilter: nf_tables: restore set elements when delete set fails

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: restore set elements when delete set fails From abort path, nft_mapelem_activate() needs to restore refcounters to the original state. Currently, it uses the set->ops->w…

  • High 7.8

    ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name ->d_name.name can change on rename and the earlier value can be freed; there are conditions sufficient to stabilize it (->d_lock on dentry, ->…

  • High 7.8

    btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free due to race with dev replace

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free due to race with dev replace While loading a zone's info during creation of a block group, we can race with a device replace operation and then trigger a use-…

  • High 7.8

    bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix overrunning reservations in ringbuf The BPF ring buffer internally is implemented as a power-of-2 sized circular buffer, with two logical and ever-increasing counters: consumer_pos i…

  • Unscored —

    rxrpc: Fix delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number Fix the construction of delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number as they can't be used as an RTT reference.

  • Unscored —

    f2fs: check validation of fault attrs in f2fs_build_fault_attr()

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: check validation of fault attrs in f2fs_build_fault_attr() - It missed to check validation of fault attrs in parse_options(), let's fix to add check condition in f2fs_build_fault_attr()…

  • Unscored —

    drm/amdgpu: Using uninitialized value *size when calling amdgpu_vce_cs_reloc

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Using uninitialized value *size when calling amdgpu_vce_cs_reloc Initialize the size before calling amdgpu_vce_cs_reloc, such as case 0x03000001. V2: To really improve the handlin…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26677
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-27012
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-38570
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-39494
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-39496
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-41009
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42160
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42228