Advisories » MGASA-2021-0062

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 01 Feb 2021
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2021-3347

Description

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.10.12 and fixes at least the
following security issue:

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.10.11. PI futexes
have a kernel stack use-after-free during fault handling, allowing local
users to execute code in the kernel (CVE-2021-3347).

For other upstream fixes, see the referenced changelog.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28262
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.12
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3347

SRPMS

7/core

• kernel-linus-5.10.12-1.mga7