Issued:
2023-10-10
Updated:
2023-10-10

RHSA-2023:5607 - Moderate: linux-firmware security and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: linux-firmware security and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for linux-firmware 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 Moderate. 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 linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.

Security Fix(es):

  • hw: amd: Cross-Process Information Leak (CVE-2023-20593)

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.

Enhancement(s):

  • [Intel 9.0.z] Intel QAT Update - firmware for QAT (BZ#2168390)

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support9.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support9.0ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support9.0s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates9.0s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support9.0aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates9.0aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.0ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • iwl6000g2b-firmware-18.168.6.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl3160-firmware-25.30.13.0-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl2030-firmware-18.168.6.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl6000g2a-firmware-18.168.6.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl7260-firmware-25.30.13.0-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • netronome-firmware-20220209-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • libertas-sd8787-firmware-20220209-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • linux-firmware-20220209-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • linux-firmware-20220209-128.el9_0.src.rpm
  • linux-firmware-whence-20220209-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-128.el9_0.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information