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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27152: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1093)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27152: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1093)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/06/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in ioapic_lazy_update_eoi in arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel before 5.9.2. It has an infinite loop related to improper interaction between a resampler and edge triggering, aka CID-77377064c3a9.

Solution(s)

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

References

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