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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-36312: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4356)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-36312: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4356)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/07/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.10. virt/kvm/kvm_main.c has a kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev memory leak upon a kmalloc failure, aka CID-f65886606c2d.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

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