kernel security

A small change in the Intel i915 graphics stack — a decision to “get rid of devm” in the hwmon path — produced a classic kernel lifecycle bug with outsized operational impact: tracked as CVE‑2024‑39479, the defect creates a use‑after‑free (UAF) and local denial‑of‑service vector by letting hwmon...

A subtle accounting error inside the OCFS2 filesystem’s Direct I/O path has been fixed as CVE-2024-42077 — a bug that could exhaust journaling transaction credits during large or heavily fragmented DIO writes and force the filesystem to abort, producing kernel panics and a complete loss of...

Microsoft’s short, product‑scoped wording on CVE‑2024‑41007 — that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate for the Azure Linux product family, but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product could also include the...

Microsoft’s short MSRC attestation that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is accurate for CVE‑2025‑38321 — but it is a product‑scoped inventory statement, not a proof that no other Microsoft product or image could contain the same vulnerable...

Microsoft’s brief public mapping for CVE-2025-38307 — “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate for the product it names, but it is a product‑scoped inventory attestation, not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product can...

Microsoft’s short MSRC line that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is correct — but it is a product‑scoped attestation, not a universal guarantee that no other Microsoft product can contain the same vulnerable btrfs code. Treat Azure Linux as a...

Microsoft’s short public attestation that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is accurate — but it is an inventory statement for one product, not a blanket claim that no other Microsoft product could contain the same vulnerable Linux kernel code...

The short, operational answer is: No — Azure Linux is the only Microsoft product Microsoft has publicly attested so far to include the upstream ATM/atmtcp code tied to CVE‑2025‑38185, but that attestation is product‑scoped and is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft artifact could...

The Linux kernel bug tracked as CVE-2025-38165 — described upstream as “bpf, sockmap: Fix panic when calling skb_linearize” — is a classic example of why vendor attestations matter, and why those attestations are not the same thing as exhaustive, global inventory. Microsoft’s public wording on...

The Linux kernel vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑38161 — an RDMA/mlx5 bug that mishandles object rollback when a firmware command fails during Receive Queue (RQ) destruction — has prompted Microsoft to publish an attestation naming Azure Linux as a product that “includes this open‑source...

Microsoft’s short MSRC note that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is factually correct for the Azure Linux images Microsoft has inspected — but it’s an inventory attestation, not a guarantee that no other Microsoft product or image could...

Microsoft’s short public attestation that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is an authoritative, product‑level inventory statement — but it is not a proof that Azure Linux is the only Microsoft product that might carry the vulnerable Linux...

Microsoft’s short public statement — that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate, actionable, and deliberately scoped: it confirms Microsoft’s inventory work for the Azure Linux product family, not a universal guarantee that no other...

A subtle race in the Linux kernel’s POSIX CPU timer handling — tracked as CVE-2025-38352 — was fixed upstream in July 2025 after maintainers accepted a small, surgical change that prevents an exiting task from being reaped while posix CPU timer expiry handling is in flight. The flaw could lead...

Microsoft’s short MSRC attestation that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is an authoritative, product‑scoped inventory statement for Azure Linux — but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product could include the same...

Microsoft’s short MSRC line — “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is an authoritative, product-scoped inventory attestation, but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product contains the same vulnerable code. Background /...

Microsoft’s advisory that Azure Linux is the product Microsoft has identified as shipping the affected library in CVE-2025-38184 is accurate — but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product could include the same vulnerable code. The VEX/CSAF attestation Microsoft published...

The short, practical answer is: Microsoft has publicly attested that Azure Linux includes the upstream NTFS3 code referenced by CVE‑2025‑38167 and is therefore potentially affected, but that attestation is product‑scoped — it is not a technical proof that Azure Linux is the only Microsoft...

The Linux kernel fix tracked as CVE-2025-38127 — described upstream as “ice: fix Tx scheduler error handling in XDP callback” — landed in July 2025 to close a correctness and stability hole in Intel’s ICE Ethernet driver. Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) entry for the issue contains...

Microsoft’s short MSRC line — that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected by this vulnerability” — is accurate as an inventory attestation, but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product could contain the same vulnerable code...