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High ALSA-2021:1093 8 CVEs

Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Apr 6, 2021 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use after free in eventpoll.c may lead to escalation of privilege (CVE-2020-0466)

* kernel: SCSI target (LIO) write to any block on ILO backstore (CVE-2020-28374)

* kernel: Use after free via PI futex state (CVE-2021-3347)

* kernel: race conditions caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c (CVE-2021-26708)

* kernel: out-of-bounds read in libiscsi module (CVE-2021-27364)

* kernel: heap buffer overflow in the iSCSI subsystem (CVE-2021-27365)

* Kernel: KVM: host stack overflow due to lazy update IOAPIC (CVE-2020-27152)

* kernel: iscsi: unrestricted access to sessions and handles (CVE-2021-27363)

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):

* race condition when creating child sockets from syncookies (BZ#1915529)

* On System Z, a hash needs state randomized for entropy extraction (BZ#1915816)

* scsi: target: core_tmr_abort_task() reporting multiple aborts for the same se_cmd->tag (BZ#1918354)

* [mlx5] VF interface stats are not reflected in "ip -s link show" / "ifconfig <vf>" commands (BZ#1921060)

* Win10 guest automatic reboot after migration in Win10 and WSL2 on Intel hosts (BZ#1923281)

* [AlmaLinux 8.3] Repeated messages - Unable to burst-read optrom segment (BZ#1924222)

* Backport bug fix RDMA/umem: Prevent small pages from being returned by ib_umem_find_best_pgsz (BZ#1924691)

* [Cisco 8.3] AlmaLinux/Cent 8.2 fNIC driver needs a patch fix that addresses crash (BZ#1925186)

* AlmaLinux8.3 - The kernel misdetects zCX with z/VM (BZ#1925508)

* Backport 22e4663e91 ("mm/slub: fix panic in slab_alloc_node()") (BZ#1925511)

* SCTP "Address already in use" when no active endpoints from AlmaLinux 8.2 onwards (BZ#1927521)

* lpfc: Fix initial FLOGI failure due to BBSCN not supported (BZ#1927921)

* [mm] mm, oom: remove oom_lock from oom_reaper (BZ#1929738)

* Unexpected thread movement with AMD Milan compared to Rome (BZ#1929740)

* rpmbuild cannot build the userspace RPMs in the kernel package when the kernel itself is not built (BZ#1929910)

* [Regression] AlmaLinux8.2 - ISST-LTE:pVM:diapvmlp83:sum:memory DLPAR fails to add memory on multiple trials[mm/memory_hotplug.c:1163] (mm-) (BZ#1930168)

* Configuring the system with non-RT kernel will hang the system (BZ#1930735)

* Upstream Patch for Gracefully handle DMAR units with no supported address widthsx86/vt-d (BZ#1932199)

* gfs2: Deadlock between gfs2_{create_inode,inode_lookup} and delete_work_func (BZ#1937109)

* Failing on tsx-ctrl when the flag doesn't change anything (BZ#1939013)

Enhancement(s):

* RFE: Backport all Audit enhancements and fixes up to version 5.10-rc1 (BZ#1907520)

* AlmaLinux8.4: Update the target driver (BZ#1918363)

* [Mellanox 8.4 FEAT] mlx5: Hairpin Support in Switch Mode (BZ#1924689)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-abi-whitelists 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3

Vulnerabilities 8

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-0466
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-27152
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-28374
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-26708
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-27363
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-27364
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-27365
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-3347