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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHSA-2023-0334 Important Kernel Security Update

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest update from Ubuntu addresses critical vulnerabilities in the kernel for 22.04 LTS. Users are urged to install it without delay.
An update for kernel 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

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: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)
* 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)
* kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)
* kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)
* kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)
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):
* Intel 9.2: Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2127884)
* vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128514)
* nvme-tcp automatic reconnect fails intermittently during EMC powerstore NDU operation (BZ#2131359)
* ice: Driver Update to 5.19 (BZ#2132070)
* WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134588)
* drm: duplicated call of drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier() in drm_connector_register() (BZ#2134619)
* updating the appid field through sysfs is returning an -EINVAL error (BZ#2136914)
* DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139213)
* No signal showed in the VGA monitor when installing RHEL9 in the legacy bios mode (BZ#2140153)
* Practically limit "Dummy wait" workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142168)
* ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143976)
* fatal error: error in backend: Branch target out of insn range (BZ#2144902)
* AMdCLIENT: The kernel command line parameter "nomodeset" not working properly (BZ#2145217)
* Azure: PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150910)
* Azure z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2151605)
* DELL 9.0 RT - On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress (BZ#2154407)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2959 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2964 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3077 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4139 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30594 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43945 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
aarch64: bpftool-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm perf-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: kernel-doc-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: bpftool-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-devel-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0334-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0334
Issue date: 2023-01-23

Topic

An update for kernel 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

2085300 - CVE-2022-30594 kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option

2103681 - CVE-2022-2959 kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation

2123309 - CVE-2022-3077 kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access()

2141752 - CVE-2022-43945 kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data

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

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