SB2022022238 - Ubuntu update for linux
Published: February 22, 2022 Updated: September 19, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 12 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22600)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the packet_set_ring() function in net/packet/af_packet.c. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger double free error and escalate privileges on the system.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against Android users.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28711)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper limits for number of events driver domains could send to other guest VMs. A local user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28712)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper limits for number of events driver domains could send to other guest VMs. A local user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28713)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper limits for number of events driver domains could send to other guest VMs. A local user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Improper Resource Shutdown or Release (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28714)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incoming data packets for a guest in the Linux kernel's netback driver are buffered until the guest is ready to process them. A remote user can use a UDP connection on a fast interface to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
6) Improper Resource Shutdown or Release (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28715)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incoming data packets for a guest in the Linux kernel's netback driver are buffered until the guest is ready to process them. A remote user can use a UDP connection on a fast interface to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
7) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-39685)
The vulnerability allows a malicious host to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the USB subsystem in Linux kernel. A malicious USB device can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the system.
8) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4083)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the Linux kernel's garbage collection for Unix domain socket file handlers. A local user can call close() and fget() simultaneously and can potentially trigger a race condition, which in turn leads to a use-after-free error and allows privilege escalation.
9) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4155)
The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to the OS kernel does not impose correctly security restrictions. A local user can gain access to sensitive information on the system.
10) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4202)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the nci_request() function in net/nfc/nci/core.c in NFC Controller Interface (NCI) in the Linux kernel. A local user can cause a data race problem while the device is getting removed and escalate privileges on the system.
11) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0330)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a random memory access flaw caused by a missing TLB flush in Linux kernel GPU i915 kernel driver functionality. A local user can execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
12) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22942)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the vmwgfx driver in Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to have access to either /dev/dri/card0 or /dev/dri/rendererD128 and be able to issue an ioctl() on the resulting file descriptor.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.