Issued:
2024-09-24
Updated:
2024-09-24

RHSA-2024:6992 - 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 8.2 Advanced 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: x86/xen: Add some null pointer checking to smp.c (CVE-2024-26908)

  • kernel: perf: Fix list corruption in perf_cgroup_switch() (CVE-2022-48799)

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

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

  • kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41090)

  • kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41091)

  • kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (CVE-2024-41071)

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 Server - AUS8.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • bpftool-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-headers-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-devel-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-doc-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.noarch.rpm
  • python3-perf-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.src.rpm
  • kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-modules-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-core-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information