Alma Linux: CVE-2021-43267: Important: kernel security update (ALSA-2021-4647)
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(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/02/2021
05/05/2022
05/04/2022
09/15/2022
Description
An issue was discovered in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.16. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.
Solution(s)
- alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
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