RHSA-2021:0940: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 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: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free (CVE-2020-29661) 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-2020-29661: kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free