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Red Hat: RHSA-2022:4721-01 Important: Kpatch-Patch Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant kpatch-patch upgrade for CentOS 7.7 resolves a security vulnerability related to privilege escalation.
An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (CVE-2022-0492)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat privilege escalation kernel patch important

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0492 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_51_1-1-7.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_52_2-1-6.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_56_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_59_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_60_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_61_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_63_1-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_66_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_51_1-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_51_1-debuginfo-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_52_2-1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_52_2-debuginfo-1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_56_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_56_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_59_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_59_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_60_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_60_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_61_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_61_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_63_1-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_63_1-debuginfo-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_66_1-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:4721-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4721
Issue date: 2022-05-24

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Update Servicesfor SAP Solutions.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 privilege escalation kernel patch important

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2051505 - CVE-2022-0492 kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

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