Issued:
2024-03-19
Updated:
2024-03-19

RHSA-2024:1377 - Important: kpatch-patch security update

Synopsis

Important: kpatch-patch security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4.

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

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination (CVE-2024-0646)

  • kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)

  • kernel: out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class function (CVE-2023-31436)

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.4ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-1-2.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-1-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-debuginfo-1-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-debugsource-1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-1-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-1-1.el8_4.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-debugsource-1-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-debuginfo-1-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-debuginfo-1-3.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-1-2.el8_4.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-debuginfo-1-2.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-debuginfo-1-2.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-debugsource-1-2.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1-debugsource-1-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-debugsource-1-2.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-debugsource-1-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-debugsource-1-3.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-debuginfo-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-1-3.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-debuginfo-1-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-debuginfo-1-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-debugsource-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-1-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_103_1-1-4.el8_4.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_108_1-1-3.el8_4.src.rpm
  • kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_114_1-1-2.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information