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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-1470-01 Important Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
This crucial notification highlights essential system updates and patches for Ubuntu Linux to bolster security measures.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev (CVE-2022-4744)
* ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)
* kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action (CVE-2022-4269)
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):
* RHEL9.0 - zfcp: fix missing auto port scan and thus missing target ports (BZ#2127880)
* Cgroups_v2, when creating new cgroup/container, resets the cpu affinity masks for all usr processes on the system. (BZ#2143766)
* RHEL9.0 - boot: Add secure boot trailer (BZ#2151528)
* kernel-rt-debug: WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected (&n->list_lock->&p->pi_lock->&lock->wait_lock) (BZ#2160614)
* Support cpuset.sched_load_balance by changing default CPUset directory structure (BZ#2161105)
* RHEL9.0 - s390/kexec: fix ipl report address for kdump (BZ#2166903)
* libgpiod doesn't seem to work with Interphase gpiochip (BZ#2166956)
* Azure RHEL9 scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM (BZ#2170227)
Enhancement(s):
* IBM 9.2 FEAT: Upgrade the QETH driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.0 (BZ#2166304)
* Intel 9.2 FEAT SPR CPU: AMX: Improve the init_fpstate setup code (BZ#2168382)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4269 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4744 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0266 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
aarch64: bpftool-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm perf-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: kernel-doc-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: bpftool-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-devel-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1470-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-03-27

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2150272 - CVE-2022-4269 kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action

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

2163379 - CVE-2023-0266 ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF

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