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Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-internal  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELMODULESINTERNAL-1584292
  • published13 Sept 2021
  • disclosed3 Sept 2021
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Introduced: 3 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-40490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (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-modules-internal package and not the kernel-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.

A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13.

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