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Medium ALSA-2021:5227 1 CVE

Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update

Published Dec 21, 2021 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: In Overlayfs missing a check for a negative dentry before calling vfs_rename() (CVE-2021-20321)

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):

* panic while breaking a lease/delegation after user mode helper invocation (BZ#2010333)

* The ASR driver is causing a system crash in AlmaLinux8.4 compared to AlmaLinux8.3 due to kernel changes (BZ#2016384)

* AlmaLinux8: DFS provided SMB shares are not accessible following unprivileged access (BZ#2017177)

* Avoid hitting the rtnl_trylock/restart_syscall logic in net-sysfs when possible (BZ#2021165)

* AlmaLinux8: x86/Kconfig: Do not enable AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT (BZ#2024678)

* AlmaLinux8.4-[Regression][P10][DD2.0][Rainier/Denali] - system crashed while offlining and onlining cores (BZ#2026450)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 kernel-tools-libs-devel 4.18.0-348.7.1.el8_5

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-20321