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RedHat 8.2 RHSA-2023-0395-01 Critical: Kernel Memory Corruption Fix

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical kernel patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 to resolve memory-related vulnerabilities and enhance security.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterpri...

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)
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):
* i40e sriov virtual functions not created (BZ#2140104)
* Data corruption on small files served by httpd, which is backed by cifs-mount (BZ#2144470)
* The "kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:103!" from BZ 2041529 is back on rhel-8.5 (BZ#2153233)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux critical patch Telecommunications Update Service advanced update support

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0395-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0395
Issue date: 2023-01-24

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAPSolutions.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 kernel update memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux critical patch Telecommunications Update Service advanced update support

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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