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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25284: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1578)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-25284: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1578)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/13/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.8.9 used incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap rbd block devices, aka CID-f44d04e696fe.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

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