Debian Security Advisory
DSA-5092-1 linux -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 07 Mar 2022
- Affected Packages:
- linux
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-43976, CVE-2022-0330, CVE-2022-0435, CVE-2022-0516, CVE-2022-0847, CVE-2022-22942, CVE-2022-24448, CVE-2022-24959, CVE-2022-25258, CVE-2022-25375.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
- CVE-2021-43976
Zekun Shen and Brendan Dolan-Gavitt discovered a flaw in the mwifiex_usb_recv() function of the Marvell WiFi-Ex USB Driver. An attacker able to connect a crafted USB device can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service.
- CVE-2022-0330
Sushma Venkatesh Reddy discovered a missing GPU TLB flush in the i915 driver, resulting in denial of service or privilege escalation.
- CVE-2022-0435
Samuel Page and Eric Dumazet reported a stack overflow in the networking module for the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol, resulting in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2022-0516
It was discovered that an insufficient check in the KVM subsystem for s390x could allow unauthorized memory read or write access.
- CVE-2022-0847
Max Kellermann discovered a flaw in the handling of pipe buffer flags. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw for local privilege escalation.
- CVE-2022-22942
It was discovered that wrong file descriptor handling in the VMware Virtual GPU driver (vmwgfx) could result in information leak or privilege escalation.
- CVE-2022-24448
Lyu Tao reported a flaw in the NFS implementation in the Linux kernel when handling requests to open a directory on a regular file, which could result in a information leak.
- CVE-2022-24959
A memory leak was discovered in the yam_siocdevprivate() function of the YAM driver for AX.25, which could result in denial of service.
- CVE-2022-25258
Szymon Heidrich reported the USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests, resulting in memory corruption.
- CVE-2022-25375
Szymon Heidrich reported that the RNDIS USB gadget lacks validation of the size of the RNDIS_MSG_SET command, resulting in information leak from kernel memory.
For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 5.10.92-2.
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
- CVE-2021-43976