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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-40939): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-40939): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/12/2024
Created
09/13/2024
Added
09/12/2024
Modified
09/25/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: Fix tainted pointer delete is case of region creation fail In case of region creation fail in ipc_devlink_create_region(), previously created regions delete process starts from tainted pointer which actually holds error code value. Fix this bug by decreasing region index before delete. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1010-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1011-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1012-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1013-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1014-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1014-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1014-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-1015-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-44-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-44-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-44-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-44-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-45-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-6-8-0-45-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-classic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-24-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-6-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-64k-6-8
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04a
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04c
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-22-04d
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-24-04

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