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Ye Zhang and Nicolas Wu discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux
kernel did not properly handle locking for rings with IOPOLL, leading to a
double-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2023-21400)

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:
– TTY drivers;
– Netfilter;
– Network traffic control;
– VMware vSockets driver;
(CVE-2024-53141, CVE-2024-53103, CVE-2024-40967, CVE-2024-53164)

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