Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-47491: kernel-rt (Multiple Advisories)
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments. But it doesn't restrict the file types so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission. This may cause bugs, like [1] and [2]. This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for regular files in order to close the attack surface. [shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]
Solution(s)
- rocky-upgrade-bpftool
- rocky-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfo
- rocky-upgrade-kernel
- 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-x86_64
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-devel
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-headers
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-modules
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-core
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-core
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-devel
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-kvm
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-devel
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-kvm
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-modules
- rocky-upgrade-kernel-rt-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
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