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CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-26401: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-26401: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/11/2022
Created
05/14/2022
Added
05/13/2022
Modified
01/29/2024

Description

LFENCE/JMP (mitigation V2-2) may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs.

Solution(s)

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

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