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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-9725: Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-9725: Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/21/2017
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-rt

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