Alma Linux: CVE-2020-27835: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1578)
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
01/07/2021
05/05/2022
05/04/2022
09/15/2022
Description
A use after free in the Linux kernel infiniband hfi1 driver in versions prior to 5.10-rc6 was found in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
Solution(s)
- alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
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