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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-22555: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-3057)

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 7, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Sep 15, 2022

Description

A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since v2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/x_tables.c. This allows an attacker to gain privileges or cause a DoS (via heap memory corruption) through user name space

Solution

alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

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