Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: exc3000 - properly stop timer on shutdown
We need to stop the timer on driver unbind or probe failures, otherwise we get UAF/Oops.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: exc3000 - properly stop timer on shutdown
We need to stop the timer on driver unbind or probe failures, otherwise we get UAF/Oops.