Issued:
2023-11-21
Updated:
2023-11-21

RHSA-2023:7379 - Important: kernel-rt security update

Synopsis

Important: kernel-rt security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 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: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)

  • kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)

  • kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)

  • kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

  • kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow (CVE-2023-42753)

  • kernel: AMD: Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions (CVE-2022-27672)

  • hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability (CVE-2022-40982)

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.

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 Solutions9.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-core-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-core-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-core-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-core-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-devel-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.src.rpm
  • kernel-rt-kvm-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-extra-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-5.14.0-284.40.1.rt14.325.el9_2.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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References

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