Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-kvm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTKVM-5879920
  • published3 Sept 2023
  • disclosed2 Sept 2023

Introduced: 2 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-4732  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-366  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in pfn_swap_entry_to_page in memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw, an attacker with a local user privilege may cause a denial of service problem due to a BUG statement referencing pmd_t x.