Advisories » MGASA-2021-0084

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Feb 2021
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2021-26708

Description

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.14 and fixes at least the
following security issues:

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before
5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are
caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c (CVE-2021-26708).

It also adds the following fixes:
- make CONNECTOR builtin to enable PROC_EVENTS (mga#28312)
- drm/amd/display: Revert "Fix EDID parsing after resume from suspend"
- drm/amdgpu: fix the issue that retry constantly once the buffer is oversize
- drm/amdgpu: set default value of noretry to 1 for vega10
- drm/amdgpu: default noretry=0 for navi1x and newer
- drm/amdkfd: fix null pointer panic while free buffer in kfd
- mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP

For other upstream fixes, see the referenced changelogs.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28340
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28312
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.13
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.14
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-26708

SRPMS

7/core

• kernel-5.10.14-1.mga7
• kmod-virtualbox-6.1.18-6.mga7
• kmod-xtables-addons-3.13-12.mga7