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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Kernel DoS Vulnerability Fix RHSA-2023:4517-01 CVE-2022-42896

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2023
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Key enhancements in safety protocols and total efficiency for CentOS Linux 8 recognized as imperative, paired with a variety of corrections. Explore further!
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: use-after-free in l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-42896)
* kernel: tcindex: use-after-free vulnerability in traffic control index filter allows privilege escalation (CVE-2023-1281)
* kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (CVE-2023-1829)
* kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the perf_group_detach function of the Linux Kernel Performance Events (CVE-2023-2235)
* kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem (CVE-2023-2124)
* kernel: i2c: out-of-bounds write in xgene_slimpro_i2c_xfer() (CVE-2023-2194)
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):
* simultaneous writes to a page on xfs can result in zero-byte data (BZ#2184101)
* RHEL 8.4 - kernel: fix __clear_user() inline assembly constraints (BZ#2192602)
* LPAR is crashed by Phyp when doing DLPAR CPU operations (BZ#2193375)
* ice: ptp4l cpu usage spikes (BZ#2203285)
* Kernel - Significant performance drop for getrandom system call when FIPS is enabled (compared to RHEL 8.x for all x < 6.z) (BZ#2208127)
* macvlan: backports from upstream (BZ#2209686)
* Intel 8.9 BUG VROC: Pull VMD secondary bus reset patch (BZ#2211198)
* Incorrect target abort handling causes iscsi deadlock (BZ#2211494)
* swap deadlock when attempt to charge a page to a cgroup stalls waiting on I/O plugged on another task in swap code (BZ#2211513)
* BUG_ON "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1041!" in __page_set_anon_rmap() when vma->anon_vma==NULL (BZ#2211658)
* RHEL 8.9: IPMI updates and bug fixes (BZ#2211667)
* RHEL 8.6 opening console with mkvterm on novalink terminal fails due to drmgr reporting failure (L3:) (BZ#2212373)
* RHEL 8.8 - P10 DD2.0: Wrong numa_node is assigned to vpmem device (BZ#2212451)
* RHEL 8.8 beta: Occasional stall during initialization of ipmi_msghandler (BZ#2213189)
* ESXi RHEL 8: Haswell generation CPU are impacted with performance due to IBRS (BZ#2213366)
* xen: fix section mismatch error with xen_callback_vector() and alloc_intr_gate() (BZ#2214281)
* jitter: Fix RCT/APT health test during initialization (BZ#2215079)
* aacraid misses interrupts when a CPU is disabled resulting in scsi timeouts and the adapter being unusable until reboot. (BZ#2216498)
* Hyper-V RHEL 8: Fix VM crash/hang Issues due to fast VF add/remove events (BZ#2216543)
* rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring [8.9] (BZ#2216769)
* Regression of 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") (BZ#2220810)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42896 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1281 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1829 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2124 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2194 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2235 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4517-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-08-08

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2147364 - CVE-2022-42896 kernel: use-after-free in l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c

2181847 - CVE-2023-1281 kernel: tcindex: use-after-free vulnerability in traffic control index filter allows privilege escalation

2187439 - CVE-2023-2124 kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem

2188396 - CVE-2023-2194 kernel: i2c: out-of-bounds write in xgene_slimpro_i2c_xfer()

2188470 - CVE-2023-1829 kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter

2192589 - CVE-2023-2235 kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the perf_group_detach function of the Linux Kernel Performance Events

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