RHSA-2021:3044 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 10, 2021

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch 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

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: race condition in net/can/bcm.c leads to local privilege escalation (CVE-2021-3609)

  • kernel: Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks (CVE-2021-22543)

  • kernel: out-of-bounds write in xt_compat_target_from_user() in net/netfilter/x_tables.c (CVE-2021-22555)

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

RHSA-2021:3044 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update | PulseLinux