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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2023-1666-01 Critical Kpatch Update

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses vulnerabilities related to use-after-free scenarios and ALSA concerns.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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: use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3564)
* ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)
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 Enterprise Linux important kernel use-after-free kpatch-patch ALSA

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3564 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0266 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.2):
Source: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_100_1-1-1.el8_2.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_91_1-1-5.el8_2.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_93_1-1-4.el8_2.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_95_1-1-3.el8_2.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_98_1-1-2.el8_2.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_100_1-1-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_100_1-debuginfo-1-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_100_1-debugsource-1-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_91_1-1-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_91_1-debuginfo-1-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_91_1-debugsource-1-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_93_1-1-4.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_93_1-debuginfo-1-4.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_93_1-debugsource-1-4.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_95_1-1-3.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_95_1-debuginfo-1-3.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_95_1-debugsource-1-3.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_98_1-1-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_98_1-debuginfo-1-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_98_1-debugsource-1-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_100_1-1-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1666-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1666
Issue date: 2023-04-05

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.2 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 Enterprise Linux important kernel use-after-free kpatch-patch ALSA

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.2) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2150999 - CVE-2022-3564 kernel: use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c

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

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