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Red Hat 8.4 RHSA-2021:4648-01 critical: kernel-rt system issues

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest Red Hat EUS revision tackles crucial kernel-rt vulnerabilities and resolves various bugs, thereby boosting overall system reliability.
An update for kernel-rt 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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Summary

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: Insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type (CVE-2021-43267)
* kernel: timer tree corruption leads to missing wakeup and system freeze (CVE-2021-20317)
* kernel: fuse: stall on CPU can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode (CVE-2021-28950)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.4.z5 source tree (BZ#2017122)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix important system update kernel-rt real-time kernel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20317 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28950 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43267 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.8.4):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.8.4):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-305.28.1.rt7.100.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4648-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4648
Issue date: 2021-11-15

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Extended Update Support.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 Red Hat bug fix important system update kernel-rt real-time kernel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.8.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.8.4) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1941762 - CVE-2021-28950 kernel: fuse: stall on CPU can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode

2005258 - CVE-2021-20317 kernel: timer tree corruption leads to missing wakeup and system freeze

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

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