CVE-2021-46971
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 18:47
Modified
2024-11-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
perf/core: Fix unconditional security_locked_down() call
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08ef1af4de5fe7de9c6d69f1e22e51b66e385d9b
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4348d3b5027bc3ff6336368b6c60605d4ef8e1ce
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b246759284d6a2bc5b6f1009caeeb3abce2ec9ff
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b0208ee370b89d20486fae71cd9abb759819c1
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5809ca4c311b71bfaba6d13f4e39eab0557895e
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 5.4
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