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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)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-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-4187052
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed15 Mar 2021
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Introduced: 15 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-29646  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

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 RHEL.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.11. tipc_nl_retrieve_key in net/tipc/node.c does not properly validate certain data sizes, aka CID-0217ed2848e8.

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