Issued:
2024-08-13
Updated:
2024-08-13

RHSA-2024:5266 - Important: kernel security update

Synopsis

Important: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service.

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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: honor table dormant flag from netdev release event path (CVE-2024-36005)

  • kernel: net: CVE-2024-36971 kernel: UAF in network route management (CVE-2024-36971)

  • kernel: ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del() (CVE-2024-39502)

  • kernel: NFSD: Fix the behavior of READ near OFFSET_MAX (CVE-2022-48827)

  • kernel: NFSD: Fix ia_size underflow (CVE-2022-48828)

  • kernel: NFSD: Fix NFSv3 SETATTR/CREATE's handling of large file sizes (CVE-2022-48829)

Bug Fix(es):

  • fix race between MADV_FREE reclaim and blkdev direct IO read (JIRA:RHEL-44845)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer 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 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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.4x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • perf-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-perf-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-core-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-core-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.src.rpm
  • bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-doc-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • bpftool-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • bpftool-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-perf-4.18.0-305.138.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information