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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-43056: kernel (RLSA-2022-1988)

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Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-43056: kernel (RLSA-2022-1988)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/28/2021
Created
03/07/2024
Added
03/05/2024
Modified
03/05/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel for powerpc before 5.14.15. It allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on Power8, due to an arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S implementation bug in the handling of the SRR1 register values.

Solution(s)

  • rocky-upgrade-bpftool
  • rocky-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-core
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-cross-headers
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debug-core
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debug-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debug-modules
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debug-modules-extra
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-modules
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • rocky-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
  • rocky-upgrade-perf
  • rocky-upgrade-perf-debuginfo
  • rocky-upgrade-python3-perf
  • rocky-upgrade-python3-perf-debuginfo

References

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