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RHSA-2021:2729: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update
An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Security Fix(es):
- kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)
- kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan (CVE-2021-33034) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Related CVEs:
- CVE-2021-33034: kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan
- CVE-2021-33909: kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer