SB2021112304 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time 8.4 update for kernel-rt
Published: November 23, 2021 Updated: October 23, 2022
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Excessive Iteration (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-28950)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive iteration in fs/fuse/fuse_i.h in the Linux kernel. A local user can run a specially crafted program to perform a denial of service attack.
2) Improper Initialization (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20317)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper initialization the Linux kernel. A corrupted timer tree causes the task wakeup to be missing in the timerqueue_add function in lib/timerqueue.c. A local user can run a specially crafted application to crash the kernel.
3) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43267)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.
A remote attacker can send specially crafted MSG_CRYPTO messages to the affected system, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.