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

  - CVE-2020-27815     A flaw was reported in the JFS filesystem code allowing     a local attacker with the ability to set extended     attributes to cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2020-27825     Adam 'pi3' Zabrocki reported a use-after-free flaw in     the ftrace ring buffer resizing logic due to a race     condition, which could result in denial of service or     information leak.

  - CVE-2020-27830     Shisong Qin reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in     the Speakup screen reader core driver.

  - CVE-2020-28374     David Disseldorp discovered that the LIO SCSI target     implementation performed insufficient checking in     certain XCOPY requests. An attacker with access to a LUN     and knowledge of Unit Serial Number assignments can take     advantage of this flaw to read and write to any LIO     backstore, regardless of the SCSI transport settings.

  - CVE-2020-29568 (XSA-349)     Michael Kurth and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz reported that     frontends can trigger OOM in backends by updating a     watched path.

  - CVE-2020-29569 (XSA-350)     Olivier Benjamin and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz reported a     use-after-free flaw which can be triggered by a block     frontend in Linux blkback. A misbehaving guest can     trigger a dom0 crash by continuously connecting /     disconnecting a block frontend.

  - CVE-2020-29660     Jann Horn reported a locking inconsistency issue in the     tty subsystem which may allow a local attacker to mount     a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID.

  - CVE-2020-29661     Jann Horn reported a locking issue in the tty subsystem     which can result in a use-after-free. A local attacker     can take advantage of this flaw for memory corruption or     privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-36158     A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the mwifiex     WiFi driver which could result in denial of service or     the execution of arbitrary code via a long SSID value.

  - CVE-2021-3347     It was discovered that PI futexes have a kernel stack     use-after-free during fault handling. An unprivileged     user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting     in denial of service) or for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2021-20177     A flaw was discovered in the Linux implementation of     string matching within a packet. A privileged user (with     root or CAP_NET_ADMIN) can take advantage of this flaw     to cause a kernel panic when inserting iptables rules.

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Debian DSA-4843-1 : linux - security update

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Version 1.6 Mar 27, 2024, 7:16 PM Detection (Debian kernel vulns will now be evaluated against the running kernel version instead of the highest installed version) Plugin Feed: 202403271916
Version 1.5 Jan 24, 2024, 7:17 PM CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2020-29569") Plugin Feed: 202401241917