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Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically."}, "name": "CVE-2022-4744", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4", "fix_state": "Affected", "impact": "moderate", "package_name": "redhat-virtualization-host", "product_name": "Red Hat Virtualization 4"}], "public_date": "2023-03-20T10:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4744\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4744\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=158b515f703e"], "statement": "Keeping Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 with Moderate severity, because required patch 158b515f703e (see reference) missed. 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