Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-KERNELHEADERS-6299168
  • published28 Feb 2024
  • disclosed27 Feb 2024

Introduced: 27 Feb 2024

CVE-2021-46911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Centos.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ch_ktls: Fix kernel panic

Taking page refcount is not ideal and causes kernel panic sometimes. It's better to take tx_ctx lock for the complete skb transmit, to avoid page cleanup if ACK received in middle.