Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

Fixed packages 16

Vulnerabilities 2

• High 8.7
  CVE-2021-22543

  Improper memory handling in Linux KVM

  An issue was discovered in Linux: KVM through Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks and can lead to pages being freed while still accessible by the VMM and guest. This allows users with the ability to start and control a VM to …

  Linux kernel Linux kernel linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu
  May 26, 2021
• Unscored —
  CVE-2021-37576

  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_rtas.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.5 on the powerpc platform allows KVM guest OS users to …

  linux-hwe linux linux-hwe-edge linux-realtime Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Jul 26, 2021

References

• article
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1965461
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1986506
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2021/rhsa-2021_4000.json
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22543
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22543
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22543
• article
  https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-7wq5-phmq-m584
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37576
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-37576
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37576
• article
  https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/26/1