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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022-5564-01 Important Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical kernel upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 tackles vulnerabilities and improves overall system efficiency.
An update for kernel 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1729)
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):
* conntrack entries linger around after test (BZ#2066356)
* Any process performing I/O doesn't fail on degraded LVM RAID and IO process hangs (BZ#2075075)
* fix data corruption caused by dm-integrity (BZ#2082184)
* Backport request of "genirq: use rcu in kstat_irqs_usr()" (BZ#2083308)
* SUT will flash once color screen during boot to OS. (BZ#2083384)
* Kernel Support Fixes for UV5 platform (BZ#2084645)
* i/o on initiator stuck when network is disrupted (4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64) (BZ#2091078)
* glock deadlock (using the dct tool) (BZ#2092073)
* Recursive locking in gfs2_fault (read/write + mmap) (BZ#2092074)
* 8.6.z backport of "vmxnet3: add support for 32 Tx/Rx queues" from BZ 2083561 (BZ#2094473)
* System freezes with callstack in dmesg: ret_from_fork (BZ#2096305)
* Need some changes in RHEL8.x kernels. (BZ#2096931)
* Bad length in dpctl/dump-flows (BZ#2097796)
Enhancement(s):
* Elkhart Graphics - remove force_probe flag (BZ#2075567)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1729 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:5564-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2022-07-13

Topic

An update for kernel 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 CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2086753 - CVE-2022-1729 kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation

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