kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control TC subsystem. Using a specific networking configuration redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred" a local unprivileged user could trigger a CPU soft lockup ABBA deadlock when the transport protocol in use TCP or SCTP does a...

Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fixes: kernel: stack overflow in doprocdointvec and procskipspaces CVE-2022-4378 ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside sndctlelemread to prevent UAF...

kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control TC subsystem. Using a specific networking configuration redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred" a local unprivileged user could trigger a CPU soft lockup ABBA deadlock when the transport protocol in use TCP or SCTP does a...