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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 RHSA-2022:0187 Critical Kernel-RT Update

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An essential patch for Red Hat's kernel-rt addresses critical vulnerabilities, including significant local privilege escalation and potential information exposure.
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: local privilege escalation by exploiting the fsconfig syscall parameter leads to container breakout (CVE-2021-4154)
* kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL (CVE-2021-4155)
* kernel: fs_context: heap overflow in legacy parameter handling (CVE-2022-0185)
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):
* kernnel-rt-debug: do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<0000000050e86018>] handle_userfault+0x530/0x1820 (BZ#2029421)
* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.4.z6 source tree (BZ#2029592)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat local privilege escalation bug fix important data leak kernel-rt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4154 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4155 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0185 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-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.8.4):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-305.34.2.rt7.107.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0187-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0187
Issue date: 2022-01-19

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat local privilege escalation bug fix important data leak kernel-rt

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

2034514 - CVE-2021-4154 kernel: local privilege escalation by exploiting the fsconfig syscall parameter leads to container breakout

2034813 - CVE-2021-4155 kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL

2040358 - CVE-2022-0185 kernel: fs_context: heap overflow in legacy parameter handling

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