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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022:1975-01 Critical: kernel-rt Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
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A significant advisory regarding the kernel-rt in Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been issued, highlighting crucial security vulnerabilities and essential patches.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it (CVE-2021-4083)
* kernel: avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors(CVE-2020-0404)
* kernel: integer overflow in k_ascii() in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c (CVE-2020-13974)
* kernel: out-of-bounds read in bpf_skb_change_head() of filter.c due to a use-after-free (CVE-2021-0941)
* kernel: joydev: zero size passed to joydev_handle_JSIOCSBTNMAP() (CVE-2021-3612)
* kernel: reading /proc/sysvipc/shm does not scale with large shared memory segment counts (CVE-2021-3669)
* kernel: out-of-bound Read in qrtr_endpoint_post in net/qrtr/qrtr.c (CVE-2021-3743)
* kernel: crypto: ccp - fix resource leaks in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() (CVE-2021-3744)
* kernel: possible use-after-free in bluetooth module (CVE-2021-3752)
* kernel: unaccounted ipc objects in Linux kernel lead to breaking memcg limits and DoS attacks (CVE-2021-3759)
* kernel: DoS in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function (CVE-2021-3764)
* kernel: sctp: Invalid chunks may be used to remotely remove existing associations (CVE-2021-3772)
* kernel: lack of port sanity checking in natd and netfilter leads to exploit of OpenVPN clients (CVE-2021-3773)
* kernel: possible leak or coruption of data residing on hugetlbfs (CVE-2021-4002)
* kernel: security regression for CVE-2018-13405 (CVE-2021-4037)
* kernel: Buffer overwrite in decode_nfs_fh function (CVE-2021-4157)
* kernel: cgroup: Use open-time creds and namespace for migration perm checks (CVE-2021-4197)
* kernel: Race condition in races in sk_peer_pid and sk_peer_cred accesses (CVE-2021-4203)
* kernel: new DNS Cache Poisoning Attack based on ICMP fragment needed packets replies (CVE-2021-20322)
* hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715 (CVE-2021-26401)
* kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation (CVE-2021-29154)
* kernel: use-after-free in hso_free_net_device() in drivers/net/usb/hso.c (CVE-2021-37159)
* kernel: eBPF multiplication integer overflow in prealloc_elems_and_freelist() in kernel/bpf/stackmap.c leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2021-41864)
* kernel: Heap buffer overflow in firedtv driver (CVE-2021-42739)
* kernel: an array-index-out-bounds in detach_capi_ctr in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c (CVE-2021-43389)
* kernel: mwifiex_usb_recv() in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows an attacker to cause DoS via crafted USB device (CVE-2021-43976)
* kernel: use-after-free in the TEE subsystem (CVE-2021-44733)
* kernel: information leak in the IPv6 implementation (CVE-2021-45485)
* kernel: information leak in the IPv4 implementation (CVE-2021-45486)
* hw: cpu: intel: Branch History Injection (BHI) (CVE-2022-0001)
* hw: cpu: intel: Intra-Mode BTI (CVE-2022-0002)
* kernel: Local denial of service in bond_ipsec_add_sa (CVE-2022-0286)
* kernel: DoS in sctp_addto_chunk in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c (CVE-2022-0322)
* kernel: FUSE allows UAF reads of write() buffers, allowing theft of (partial) /etc/shadow hashes (CVE-2022-1011)
* kernel: use-after-free in nouveau kernel module (CVE-2020-27820)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-0404 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13974 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27820 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-0941 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3612 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3669 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3743 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3744 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3752 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3759 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3764 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3772 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3773 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4002 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4037 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4083 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4157 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4197 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4203 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20322 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26401 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29154 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37159 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-41864 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 8):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 8):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1975-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 8) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 8) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1901726 - CVE-2020-27820 kernel: use-after-free in nouveau kernel module

1903578 - kernnel-rt-debug: do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<0000000050e86018>] handle_userfault+0x530/0x1820

1905749 - kernel-rt-debug: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:968

1919791 - CVE-2020-0404 kernel: avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors1946684 - CVE-2021-29154 kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation

1951739 - CVE-2021-42739 kernel: Heap buffer overflow in firedtv driver

1974079 - CVE-2021-3612 kernel: joydev: zero size passed to joydev_handle_JSIOCSBTNMAP()

1985353 - CVE-2021-37159 kernel: use-after-free in hso_free_net_device() in drivers/net/usb/hso.c

1986473 - CVE-2021-3669 kernel: reading /proc/sysvipc/shm does not scale with large shared memory segment counts

1997467 - CVE-2021-3764 kernel: DoS in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function

1997961 - CVE-2021-3743 kernel: out-of-bound Read in qrtr_endpoint_post in net/qrtr/qrtr.c

1999544 - CVE-2021-3752 kernel: possible use-after-free in bluetooth module

1999675 - CVE-2021-3759 kernel: unaccounted ipc objects in Linux kernel lead to breaking memcg limits and DoS attacks

2000627 - CVE-2021-3744 kernel: crypto: ccp - fix resource leaks in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd()

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