Issued:
2024-05-28
Updated:
2024-05-28

RHSA-2024:3414 - 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: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation (CVE-2023-6240)

  • kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function (CVE-2024-1086)

  • kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (CVE-2024-26586)

  • kernel: netfilter: nftables: exthdr: fix 4-byte stack OOB write (CVE-2023-52628)

  • kernel: Use-after-free in nft_verdict_dump due to a race between set GC and transaction (CVE-2023-4244)

  • kernel: inactive elements in nft_pipapo_walk (CVE-2023-6817)

Bug Fix(es):

  • kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.0.z Batch 17 (JIRA:RHEL-32673)

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-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-kvm-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-devel-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-core-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-modules-extra-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.src.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-core-5.14.0-70.101.1.rt21.173.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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References

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