vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2021-46920: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Feb 27, 2024
Added
Aug 9, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

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

dmaengine: idxd: Fix clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback

Current code blindly writes over the SWERR and the OVERFLOW bits. Write
back the bits actually read instead so the driver avoids clobbering the
OVERFLOW bit that comes after the register is read.

Solutions

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