USN-6973-1

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)