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High ALSA-2021:2570 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Published Jun 29, 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 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan (CVE-2021-33034)

* kernel: security bypass in certs/blacklist.c and certs/system_keyring.c (CVE-2020-26541)

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):

* [ESXi][AlmaLinux-8] VMXNET3 v4 causes invalid checksums of inner packets of VXLAN tunnel (BZ#1960702)

* fnic crash from invalid request pointer (BZ#1961705)

* GFS2: Failed FS thaw call makes the entire snapshot failed. (BZ#1961849)

* dm writecache: fix performance degradation in ssd mode (BZ#1962241)

* Kernel BUG with act_ct and IP fragments (BZ#1963940)

* core: backports from upstream (BZ#1963952)

* Hibernate resume on AlmaLinux fails in Amazon EC2 C5.18xlarge instance (BZ#1964930)

* [SanityOnly] panic caused by i40e_msix_clean_rings (BZ#1964962)

* tc reclassification limit is too low for OVN (BZ#1965148)

* tc action ct nat src addr does not work while used with ct nat dst addr together (BZ#1965150)

* CNB: Rebase/update TC subsystem for AlmaLinux 8.5 (BZ#1965457)

* sctp: crash due to use after free of sctp_transport structure (BZ#1965632)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 4.18.0-305.7.1.el8_4

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-26541
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-33034