Debian: Security Advisory for linux (DSA-5092-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 'linux' package(s) announced via the DSA-5092-1 advisory.

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 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.

'linux' package(s) on Debian Linux.

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For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 5.10.92-2. We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.