Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-46920

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 clobbering of SWERR overflow bit on writeback Current code blindly writ...

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-2021-46920

CVE-2021-46920 concerns the Linux kernel DMAengine idxd; the bug is a clobber of the SWERR overflow bit during writeback where the code overwrites SWERR/OVERFLOW instead of restoring the bits read. Affected: Linux kernel with idxd component; root cause: writeback path writes read values back, pre...