RHSA-2021:1739 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
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Published · May 19, 2021
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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.
Description
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: Integer overflow in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers (CVE-2020-12362)
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kernel: use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c driver (CVE-2019-19523)
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kernel: use-after-free bug caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c driver (CVE-2019-19528)
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kernel: possible out of bounds write in kbd_keycode of keyboard.c (CVE-2020-0431)
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kernel: DoS by corrupting mountpoint reference counter (CVE-2020-12114)
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kernel: use-after-free in usb_sg_cancel function in drivers/usb/core/message.c (CVE-2020-12464)
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kernel: buffer uses out of index in ext3/4 filesystem (CVE-2020-14314)
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kernel: Use After Free vulnerability in cgroup BPF component (CVE-2020-14356)
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kernel: NULL pointer dereference in serial8250_isa_init_ports function in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c (CVE-2020-15437)
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kernel: umask not applied on filesystem without ACL support (CVE-2020-24394)
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kernel: TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code (CVE-2020-25212)
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kernel: incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices (CVE-2020-25284)
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kernel: race condition between hugetlb sysctl handlers in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2020-25285)
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kernel: improper input validation in ppp_cp_parse_cr function leads to memory corruption and read overflow (CVE-2020-25643)
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kernel: perf_event_parse_addr_filter memory (CVE-2020-25704)
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kernel: use-after-free in kernel midi subsystem (CVE-2020-27786)
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kernel: child process is able to access parent mm through hfi dev file handle (CVE-2020-27835)
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kernel: slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon (CVE-2020-28974)
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kernel: fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent (CVE-2020-35508)
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kernel: use after free in tun_get_user of tun.c could lead to local escalation of privilege (CVE-2021-0342)
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kernel: NULL pointer dereferences in ov511_mode_init_regs and ov518_mode_init_regs in drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov519.c (CVE-2020-11608)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.