Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-46970

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: bus: mhi: pcigeneric: Remove WQMEMRECLAIM flag from state workqueue A recent change created ...

CVE-2021-46970

CVE-2021-46970 affects the Linux kernel’s MHI PCI generic bus driver. The issue arises from a dedicated state-change workqueue created with both WQ_HIGHPRI and WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flags, where the state-change work (mhi_pm_st_worker) cannot guarantee forward progress under memory pressure and may bloc...