RHSA-2021:3904: Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update

First published: Tue Oct 19 2021(Updated: )

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> kernel: SVM nested virtualization issue in KVM (AVIC support) (CVE-2021-3653)</li> <li> kernel: SVM nested virtualization issue in KVM (VMLOAD/VMSAVE) (CVE-2021-3656)</li> 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.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> RHEL8.2 - s390/vtime: fix increased steal time accounting (BZ#1988387)</li> <li> Backport 22e4663e91 ("mm/slub: fix panic in slab_alloc_node()") (BZ#1996078)</li> <li> Kernel panic at n_tty_set_termios+0x30 (BZ#1998000)</li>

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