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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2023-0400 Critical DoS Kernel-RT Update

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant kernel-rt patch has just been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, tackling various security vulnerabilities and bug fixes.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)
* hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715 (CVE-2021-26401)
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):
* kernel-rt: update to the latest RHEL7.9.z20 source tree (BZ#2152044)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory DoS memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel-rt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-26401 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2964 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.83.1.rt56.1228.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time (v. 7):
Source:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0400-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0400
Issue date: 2023-01-24

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 DoS memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel-rt

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2061700 - CVE-2021-26401 hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715

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

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