vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-26708: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1093)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 5, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelistsalma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
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