MGASA-2021-0084 - Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 15 Feb 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0084.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7 CVE: CVE-2021-26708 This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.14 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c (CVE-2021-26708). It also adds the following fixes: - make CONNECTOR builtin to enable PROC_EVENTS (mga#28312) - drm/amd/display: Revert "Fix EDID parsing after resume from suspend" - drm/amdgpu: fix the issue that retry constantly once the buffer is oversize - drm/amdgpu: set default value of noretry to 1 for vega10 - drm/amdgpu: default noretry=0 for navi1x and newer - drm/amdkfd: fix null pointer panic while free buffer in kfd - mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP For other upstream fixes, see the referenced changelogs. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28340 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28312 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.13 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.14 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-26708 SRPMS: - 7/core/kernel-5.10.14-1.mga7 - 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.1.18-6.mga7 - 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.13-12.mga7