vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-46918: kernel: MSIX permission entry on shutdown

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: clear MSIX permission entry on shutdown

Add disabling/clearing of MSIX permission entries on device shutdown to
mirror the enabling of the MSIX entries on probe. Current code left the
MSIX enabled and the pasid entries still programmed at device shutdown.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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