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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022:6592-01 Important kpatch Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical kpatch-patch security enhancement released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Discover the heap overflow vulnerability and its remediation.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: heap overflow in nft_set_elem_init() (CVE-2022-34918)
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 heap overflow important update kpatch-patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-34918 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9):
Source: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-1-2.el9_0.src.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-1-1.el9_0.src.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-1-1.el9_0.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-1-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-debuginfo-1-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-debugsource-1-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-debuginfo-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-debugsource-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-debuginfo-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-debugsource-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-1-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-debuginfo-1-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_13_1-debugsource-1-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-debuginfo-1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_17_1-debugsource-1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-debuginfo-1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_22_1-debugsource-1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6592-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6592
Issue date: 2022-09-20

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 heap overflow important update kpatch-patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2104423 - CVE-2022-34918 kernel: heap overflow in nft_set_elem_init()

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