RedHat kpatch-patch-4_18_0 CVE-2021-3501 Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability

Description

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Security Fix(es): kernel: userspace applications can misuse the KVM API to cause a write of 16 bytes at an offset up to 32 GB from vcpu->run (CVE-2021-3501) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. SolutionFor details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Applications

kpatch-patch-4_18_0

CVE References

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