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High RLSA-2021:4088 3 CVEs

Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Published Nov 2, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

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):

* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the Rocky Linux-8.4.z source tree (BZ#2004117)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 kernel-rt 0:4.18.0-305.25.1.rt7.97.el8_4

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974319
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974491
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1983988