Issued:
2023-08-29
Updated:
2023-08-29

RHSA-2023:4814 - Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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):

  • kernel: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb (CVE-2023-3090)

  • kernel: kernel info leak issue in pfkey_register (CVE-2022-1353)

  • kernel: unmap_mapping_range() race with munmap() on VM_PFNMAP mappings leads to stale TLB entry (CVE-2022-39188)

  • kernel: speculative pointer dereference in do_prlimit() in kernel/sys.c (CVE-2023-0458)

  • kernel: tls: race condition in do_tls_getsockopt may lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2023-28466)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

  • kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.0.z11 Batch (BZ#2219867)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.0x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.src.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-core-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-core-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-extra-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-devel-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-kvm-5.14.0-70.70.1.rt21.141.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information