Category Archives: Advisories

DSA-5764-1 openssl – security update

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David Benjamin reported a flaw in the X.509 name checks in OpenSSL, a
Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, which may cause an application performing
certificate name checks to crash, resulting in denial of service.

Additional details can be found in the upstream advisory:
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20240903.txt

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5764-1

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USN-6973-4: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem
in the Linux kernel, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A
privileged local attacker could use this to possibly cause a denial of
service (system crash). (CVE-2024-24860)

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:
– SuperH RISC architecture;
– MMC subsystem;
– Network drivers;
– SCSI drivers;
– GFS2 file system;
– IPv4 networking;
– IPv6 networking;
– HD-audio driver;
(CVE-2024-26830, CVE-2024-39484, CVE-2024-36901, CVE-2024-26929,
CVE-2024-26921, CVE-2021-46926, CVE-2023-52629, CVE-2023-52760)

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