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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:0832-01 Important Kernel Security Fix

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2023
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A new kernel update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, focusing on critical security vulnerabilities and enhancements.
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: mm/mremap.c use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2022-41222)
* kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)
* kernel: an out-of-bounds vulnerability in i2c-ismt driver (CVE-2022-2873)
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):
* WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134586)
* Hardware error: RIP: copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0xe (BZ#2137592)
* Cannot trigger kernel dump using NMI on SNO node running PAO and RT kernel (BZ#2139580)
* MEI support for Alder Lake-S (BZ#2141783)
* Host Pod -> Cluster IP Service traffic (Pod Backend - Different Node) Flow Iperf Cannot Connect (BZ#2141959)
* RHEL8.7: Xorg cannot display resolution higher than 1024x768 on system using ast graphics driver (BZ#2149287)
* Intel 8.7 Bug: OS doesn't boot when vmd and interrupt remapping are enabled (BZ#2149474)
* i40e,iavf: SR-IOV VF devices send GARP with wrong MAC address (BZ#2149745)
* RHEL8.4 - boot: Add secure boot trailer (BZ#2151530)
* error 524 from seccomp(2) when trying to load filter (BZ#2152138)
* Workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM iscsi_ctrl_1:98 __iscsi_unbind_session [scsi_transport_iscsi] (BZ#2152734)
* Connectivity issue with vDPA driver (BZ#2152912)
* High Load average due to cfs cpu throttling (BZ#2153108)
* The "kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:103!" from BZ 2041529 is back on rhel-8.5 (BZ#2153230)
* RHEL8: tick storm on nohz (isolated) CPU cores (BZ#2153653)
* kernel BUG: scheduling while atomic: crio/7295/0x00000002 (BZ#2154460)
* Azure RHEL 8 z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2155272)
* Azure: VM Deployment Failures Patch Request (BZ#2155280)
* Azure vPCI RHEL-8: add the support of multi-MSI (BZ#2155289)
* MSFT MANA NET Patch RHEL-8: Fix race on per-CQ variable napi_iperf panic fix (BZ#2155437)
* GSS: OCP 4.10.30 node crash after ODF upgrade : unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 : ceph_get_snap_realm+0x68/0xa0 [ceph] (BZ#2155797)
* Error in /usr/src/kernels/4.18.0-423.el8.x86_64/scripts/kernel-doc script causing irdma build to fail (BZ#2157905)
* RHEL8.8: Backport upstream patches to reduce memory cgroup memory consumption and OOM problem (BZ#2157922)
* The 'date' command shows wrong time in nested KVM s390x guest (BZ#2158813)
* ethtool -m results in an out-of-bounds slab write in the be2net driver (BZ#2160182)
* (Redhat OpenShift)Error downloading big ZIP files inside pod on power OCP and pod getting restarted (BZ#2160221)
* i40e/iavf: VF reset task fails "Never saw reset" with 5 second timeout per VF (BZ#2160460)
* iavf: It takes long time to create multiple VF interfaces and the VF interface names are not consistent (BZ#2163257)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2873 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41222 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43945 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0832-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-02-21

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

2119048 - CVE-2022-2873 kernel: an out-of-bounds vulnerability in i2c-ismt driver

2138818 - CVE-2022-41222 kernel: mm/mremap.c use-after-free vulnerability

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

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