Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-46917

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: dmaengine: idxd: fix wq cleanup of WQCFG registers A pre-release silicon erratum workaround...

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...

CVE-2021-46917

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: fix wq cleanup of WQCFG registers A pre-release silicon erratum workaround where wq reset does not clear WQCFG registers was leaked into upstream code. Use wq reset command instead of blasting the MMIO region. Th...

CVE-2021-46917

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: fix wq cleanup of WQCFG registers A pre-release silicon erratum workaround where wq reset does not clear WQCFG registers was leaked into upstream code. Use wq reset command instead of blasting the MMIO region. Th...

CVE-2021-46917

CVE-2021-46917 is a Linux kernel vulnerability tied to the dmaengine: idxd subsystem. The issue stems from a pre-release silicon erratum workaround where a wq reset did not clear WQCFG registers, leaking into upstream code and risking clobbering registers on future devices. The documented fix rep...