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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-43267: Important: kernel security update (ALSA-2021-4647)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-43267: Important: kernel security update (ALSA-2021-4647)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.16. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.

Solution(s)

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

References

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