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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 RHSA-2021-4644 Important: MSG_CRYPTO Patch

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has unveiled a critical security update for kpatch-patch, tackling major vulnerabilities in Enterprise Linux.
An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

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

Summary

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: Insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type (CVE-2021-43267)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel patch important red hat enterprise linux msg crypto

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43267 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4):
Source: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305-1-8.el8.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_10_2-1-5.el8_4.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_12_1-1-4.el8_4.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_17_1-1-3.el8_4.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_19_1-1-3.el8_4.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_25_1-1-2.el8_4.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_3_1-1-7.el8_4.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_7_1-1-6.el8_4.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305-1-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305-debuginfo-1-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305-debugsource-1-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_10_2-1-5.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_10_2-debuginfo-1-5.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_10_2-debugsource-1-5.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_12_1-1-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_12_1-debuginfo-1-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_12_1-debugsource-1-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_17_1-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_17_1-debuginfo-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_17_1-debugsource-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_19_1-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_19_1-debuginfo-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_19_1-debugsource-1-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4644-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4644
Issue date: 2021-11-15

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended UpdateSupport.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel patch important red hat enterprise linux msg crypto

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2020362 - CVE-2021-43267 kernel: Insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type

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