[ALSA-2021:4056] Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Type:
security
Severity:
important
Release date:
2021-11-02
Description:
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es): * kernel: use-after-free in drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c ctx use-after-free (CVE-2020-36385) * kernel: out-of-bounds write due to a heap buffer overflow in __hidinput_change_resolution_multipliers() of hid-input.c (CVE-2021-0512) * kernel: SVM nested virtualization issue in KVM (VMLOAD/VMSAVE) (CVE-2021-3656) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Bug Fix(es): * [HPE 8.3 bug] No EDAC MC0 message with one-DIMM two-processor configuration under AlmaLinux8.3 (BZ#1982182) * mlx: devlink port function shows all zero hw_addr (BZ#1986837) * net/sched: act_mirred: allow saving the last chain processed on xmit path (BZ#1992230) * AlmaLinux8.3 - System hang and / or r/o fs during SVC/v5k/v7k maintenance with ibmvfc (BZ#1993892) * AlmaLinux8.1 Snapshot3 - PVT:940:virt:4TB:LPM operation failed by returning HSCLA2CF, HSCL365C SRC's - Linux partition suspend timeout (-> documentation/Linux Alert through LTC bug 182549) (BZ#1993952) * AlmaLinux8.4 - benchTableRepDMLAsyncBarrier regresses by 34% on AlmaLinux8.4 on POWER9 compared to AlmaLinux8.2 (performance) (BZ#1997431) * [panic] call trace: ice_probe+0x238/0x10f0 [ice] (BZ#1997539) * [ice, PTP] ice: fix GPIO 1PPS signal (BZ#1997572) * Fix locality handling in the tpm_tis driver (BZ#1998219) * [ice, PTP]: fix Tx queue iteration for Tx timestamp enablement (BZ#2000128) * PCI passthrough with NVidia GPU "Invalid device 0003:01:00.0 iommu_group file /sys/bus/pci/devices/0003:01:00.0/iommu_group is not a symlink" (BZ#2000602) * [DELL 8.4 BUG] - System Hangs at Dell Logo When Boot to OS(e1000e with wrong GbE checksum) (BZ#2002335) * AlmaLinux8.4 - kernel: Fix hanging ioctl caused by wrong msg counter (BZ#2002635) * kernel: get_timespec64 does not ignore padding in compat syscalls (BZ#2003569) * [mlx5] eth0: hw csum failure (BZ#2005980) * xlog_grant_head_wait() does not return and system hangs (BZ#2007413) * panic while breaking a lease/delegation after user mode helper invocation (BZ#2010331) * Lockd invalid cast to nlm_lockowner (BZ#2010820) * [xfstests generic/388] XFS: Assertion failed: 0, file: fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c, line: 1218 (BZ#2011919) Enhancement(s): * [Intel 8.5 FEAT] ice: Enable PTP Support (BZ#1998220) * [Intel 8.5 FEAT] ice: Enable GPIO/SDP Support (BZ#1998221)
Updated packages listed below:
Architecture Package Checksum
x86_64 kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm cad85175982e1e340039c386b87941471edd1dbc0a5f0caaa58b8c8440b918bf
Notes:
This page is generated automatically from Red Hat security data and has not been checked for errors. For clarification or corrections please contact the AlmaLinux Packaging Team.