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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4: RHSA-2022-6243-01 Moderate Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 has been released to resolve several moderate vulnerabilities and bugs found in the kernel.
An update for kernel 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* information leak in scsi_ioctl() (CVE-2022-0494)
* A kernel-info-leak issue in pfkey_register (CVE-2022-1353)
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):
* unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000138040000237 (BZ#2100406)
* bnxt_en: Update driver to the latest upstream version (BZ#2100422)
* too long timeout value with TIME_WAIT status of conntrack entry (BZ#2104004)
* tcp: request_sock leak in Calico OCP (BZ#2104671)
* net: openvswitch: fix parsing of nw_proto for IPv6 fragments (BZ#2106704)
* ipv6: 'disable_policy' is ignored for addresses configured on a down interface (BZ#2109972)
* Percpu counter usage is gradually getting increasing during podman container recreation. (BZ#2110040)
* trouble re-assigning MACs to VFs, ice stricter than other drivers(BZ#2111937)
* ceph: add support for rxbounce option (BZ#2112967)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak kernel update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0494 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1353 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-305.62.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6243-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6243
Issue date: 2022-08-30

Topic

An update for kernel 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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak kernel update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2039448 - CVE-2022-0494 kernel: information leak in scsi_ioctl()

2066819 - CVE-2022-1353 Kernel: A kernel-info-leak issue in pfkey_register

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