Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-46911

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: chktls: Fix kernel panic Taking page refcount is not ideal and causes kernel panic sometimes...

SUSE-SU-2024:1489-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2020-36781: Fixed reference leak when pmruntimegetsync fails in i2c/imx bsc1220557. - CVE-2021-46911: Fixed kernel panic bsc1220400. - CVE-2021-46914: Fixed...

SUSE CVE-2021-46911

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: chktls: Fix kernel panic Taking page refcount is not ideal and causes kernel panic sometimes. It's better to take txctx lock for the complete skb transmit, to avoid page cleanup if ACK received in middle...

CVE-2021-46911

CVE-2021-46911 affects the Linux kernel’s ch_ktls path. The issue was caused by taking the page refcount during skb transmit, which could trigger kernel panics. The documented fix replaces this with taking the tx_ctx lock for the complete skb transmit, preventing page cleanup if an ACK is receive...