| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8' package(s) announced via the USN-7449-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
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:
- ARM64 architecture,
- MIPS architecture,
- PowerPC architecture,
- RISC-V architecture,
- S390 architecture,
- SuperH RISC architecture,
- User-Mode Linux (UML),
- x86 architecture,
- Block layer subsystem,
- Cryptographic API,
- Compute Acceleration Framework,
- ACPI drivers,
- Drivers core,
- RAM backed block device driver,
- Compressed RAM block device driver,
- TPM device driver,
- Clock framework and drivers,
- Data acquisition framework and drivers,
- CPU frequency scaling framework,
- Hardware crypto device drivers,
- CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers,
- EDAC drivers,
- ARM SCMI message protocol,
- ARM SCPI message protocol,
- EFI core,
- GPIO subsystem,
- GPU drivers,
- HID subsystem,
- I3C subsystem,
- IIO ADC drivers,
- IIO subsystem,
- InfiniBand drivers,
- IOMMU subsystem,
- LED subsystem,
- Multiple devices driver,
- Media drivers,
- Multifunction device drivers,
- MMC subsystem,
- MTD block device drivers,
- Network drivers,
- Mellanox network drivers,
- STMicroelectronics network drivers,
- NVME drivers,
- PCI subsystem,
- PHY drivers,
- Pin controllers subsystem,
- x86 platform drivers,
- i.MX PM domains,
- Voltage and Current Regulator drivers,
- StarFive reset controller drivers,
- Real Time Clock drivers,
- SCSI subsystem,
- i.MX SoC drivers,
- QCOM SoC drivers,
- Xilinx SoC drivers,
- SPI subsystem,
- Media staging drivers,
- TCM subsystem,
- UFS subsystem,
- DesignWare USB3 driver,
- USB Dual Role (OTG-ready) Controller drivers,
- USB Serial drivers,
- USB Type-C support driver,
- USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver,
- USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver,
- vDPA drivers,
- VFIO drivers,
- Framebuffer layer,
- Xen hypervisor drivers,
- AFS file system,
- BTRFS file system,
- File systems infrastructure,
- EROFS file system,
- F2FS file system,
- JFFS2 file system,
- JFS file system,
- Network file systems library,
- Network file system (NFS) client,
- Network file system (NFS) server daemon,
- NILFS2 file system,
- NTFS3 file system,
- Overlay file system,
- Proc file system,
- Diskquota system,
- SMB network file system,
- UBI file system,
- DRM display driver,
- BPF subsystem,
- StackDepot library,
- Bluetooth subsystem,
- IP tunnels definitions,
- Netfilter,
- Tracing infrastructure,
- User-space API (UAPI),
- Kernel init infrastructure,
- io_uring subsystem,
- IPC subsystem,
- DMA mapping infrastructure,
- Kernel fork() syscall,
- KCSAN framework,
- RCU subsystem,
- Arbitrary resource management,
- Scheduler infrastructure,
- Signal handling mechanism,
- Task handling mechanism,
- Timer subsystem,
- KUnit library,
- Memory management,
- ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities]
Affected Software/OS:
'linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8' package(s) on Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
6.8
CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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