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RHEL 8.6: RHSA-2023-3431-01 Important kpatch Security Fix

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian reveals a critical enhancement for apt-secure targeting major vulnerabilities in Debian 11 Bullseye.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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: use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3564)
* 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 security update Red Hat kernel patch critical fix important issue kpatch-patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3564 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4378 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6):
Source: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_36_1-1-6.el8_6.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_40_1-1-6.el8_6.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_41_1-1-5.el8_6.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_46_1-1-3.el8_6.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_51_1-1-2.el8_6.src.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_52_1-1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_36_1-1-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_36_1-debuginfo-1-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_36_1-debugsource-1-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_40_1-1-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_40_1-debuginfo-1-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_40_1-debugsource-1-6.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_41_1-1-5.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_41_1-debuginfo-1-5.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_41_1-debugsource-1-5.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_46_1-1-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_46_1-debuginfo-1-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_46_1-debugsource-1-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_51_1-1-2.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_51_1-debuginfo-1-2.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_51_1-debugsource-1-2.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_52_1-1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3431-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3431
Issue date: 2023-06-05

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.6 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat kernel patch critical fix important issue kpatch-patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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

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