Debian and Ubuntu Users Get Kernel Security Updates to Fix Recent Wi-Fi Stack Flaws

Posted by hanuca on Oct 20, 2022 8:09 AM EDT
9to5Linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Users of the Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux distributions received important kernel security updates that address multiple vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers.

On October 18th, 2022, Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” users received a new major kernel update patching a total of 17 security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-3176 and CVE-2022-2602, two flaws discovered in the io_uring subsystem that could lead to local privilege escalation to root, and CVE-2022-40307, a race condition discovered in the EFI capsule-loader driver that could also lead to local privilege escalation or a denial of service (crash or memory corruption).

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