Issued:
2024-03-13
Updated:
2024-03-13

RHSA-2024:1303 - Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

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 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 kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (CVE-2022-0480)

Bug Fix(es):

  • kernel-rt: kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (JIRA:RHEL-8998)

  • kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.2.z7 Batch (JIRA:RHEL-26863)

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-modules-core-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-kvm-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-core-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-extra-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-devel-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-core-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-core-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.src.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-5.14.0-284.57.1.rt14.342.el9_2.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information