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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:0101-01 Critical: GPU and Memory Fixes

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A major update from Red Hat focuses on essential kernel enhancements, tackling significant vulnerabilities and errors within the Enterprise Linux 8 offerings.
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: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)
* kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)
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):
* RHEL8.4 - zfcp: fix missing auto port scan and thus missing target ports (BZ#2127849)
* vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128515)
* ice: Driver Update up to 5.19 (BZ#2130992)
* atlantic: missing hybernate/resume fixes (BZ#2131935)
* Bluefield 2 DPU would crash and reboot due to a kernel panic (BZ#2134084)
* Fix issue that enables STABLE_WRITES by default and causes performance regressions (BZ#2135813)
* ice: Intel E810 PTP clock glitching (BZ#2136036)
* ice: configure link-down-on-close on and change interface mtu to 9000,the interface can't up (BZ#2136216)
* ice: dump additional CSRs for Tx hang debugging (BZ#2136513)
* ice,iavf: system panic during sriov sriov_test_cntvf_reboot testing (BZ#2137270)
* After upgrading to ocp4.11.1, our dpdk application using vlan strip offload is not working (BZ#2138157)
* i40e: orphaned-leaky memory when interacting with driver memory parameters (BZ#2138205)
* WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9637 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1309 hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x35d/0x400 (BZ#2138953)
* DELL EMC 8.6-RT: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139216)
* Lenovo 8.7: The VGA display shows no signal when install RHEL8.7 (BZ#2140152)
* Host Pod -> NodePort Service traffic (Host Backend - Same Node) Flow Iperf Cannot Pass Traffic (BZ#2141878)
* mlx5_core: mlx5_cmd_check messages scrolling with hardware offload enabled (BZ#2141957)
* net/ice: VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_VSI_QUEUES command handling failure with in-tree driver (BZ#2142017)
* RHEL:8.6+ IBM Partner issue - Loopback driver with ABORT_TASKS causing hangs in scsi eh, this bug was cloned for RHEL8.6 and need this patch in 8.6+ (BZ#2144583)
* AMdCLIENT 8.8: The kernel command line parameter "nomodeset" not working properly (BZ#2145218)
* Path loss during Volume Ownership Change on RHEL 8.7 SAS (BZ#2147374)
* net/ice: OP_SET_RSS_HENA command not supported with in-tree driver (BZ#2148130)
* iavf panic: iavf 0000:ca:01.0: Failed to init adminq: -53 (BZ#2149081)
* Intel 8.8 iavf: Driver Update (bugfixes) (BZ#2149742)
* Azure RHEL-8 PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150912)
* RHEL-8.7: System fails to boot with soft lockup while loading/unloading an unsigned (E) kernel module. (BZ#2152206)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2964 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4139 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0101-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-01-12

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

2067482 - CVE-2022-2964 kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device.

2147572 - CVE-2022-4139 kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access

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