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CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-36312: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-36312: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/07/2021
Created
11/16/2021
Added
11/16/2021
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvm_main.c has a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • CVE-2020-36312

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