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Red Hat 7.7: RHSA-2023-0945 Important: kpatch-patch Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recently released kpatch-patch for CentOS targets vulnerabilities related to memory overflow, rated as Critical. Update immediately.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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

Summary

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces (CVE-2022-4378)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat security fix important stack overflow kpatch-patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4378 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_68_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_70_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_68_1-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_68_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_70_1-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_70_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_68_1-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_68_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_70_1-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_70_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0945-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0945
Issue date: 2023-02-28

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.7 Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 Red Hat security fix important stack overflow kpatch-patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2152548 - CVE-2022-4378 kernel: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces

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