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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 RHSA-2023:1466-01 Important: DoS Kernel Fix

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued an essential kpatch update for Enterprise Linux 9.0, addressing a significant kernel security flaw.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

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: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev (CVE-2022-4744)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS security fix kernel patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kpatch-patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4744 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.0):
Source: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_26_1-1-6.el9_0.src.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_30_1-1-4.el9_0.src.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_36_1-1-3.el9_0.src.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_43_1-1-2.el9_0.src.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_49_1-1-1.el9_0.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_26_1-1-6.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_26_1-debuginfo-1-6.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_26_1-debugsource-1-6.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_30_1-1-4.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_30_1-debuginfo-1-4.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_30_1-debugsource-1-4.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_36_1-1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_36_1-debuginfo-1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_36_1-debugsource-1-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_43_1-1-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_43_1-debuginfo-1-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_43_1-debugsource-1-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_49_1-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_49_1-debuginfo-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_49_1-debugsource-1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_26_1-1-6.el9_0.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_26_1-debuginfo-1-6.el9_0.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1466-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1466
Issue date: 2023-03-27

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux9.0 Extended Update Support.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 DoS security fix kernel patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kpatch-patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.0) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2156322 - CVE-2022-4744 kernel: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev

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