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Red Hat 8.6 RHSA-2023-4789-01 Important Kernel Security Issues

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security enhancement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 dealing with kernel vulnerabilities classified as severe.
An update for kernel 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

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: use-after-free in l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-42896)
* kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (CVE-2023-1829)
* kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)
* kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt() (CVE-2023-35788)
* kernel: when setting font with malicious data by ioctl PIO_FONT, kernel will write memory out of bounds (CVE-2021-33656)
* kernel: save/restore speculative MSRs during S3 suspend/resume (CVE-2023-1637)
* Kernel: bluetooth: Unauthorized management command execution (CVE-2023-2002)
* kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem (CVE-2023-2124)
* hw: amd: Cross-Process Information Leak (CVE-2023-20593)
* kernel: tls: race condition in do_tls_getsockopt may lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2023-28466)
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#2184103)
* Invalid character detected by rpminspect in Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/magic-number.rst (BZ#2208286)
* Low memory deadlock with md devices and external (imsm) metadata handling - - requires a kernfs notification backport (BZ#2208542)
* Windows Server 2019 guest randomly pauses with "KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021" (BZ#2211663)
* Marvell 8.7 Bug qedi shutdown handler hangs upon reboot (BZ#2215334)
* aacraid misses interrupts when a CPU is disabled resulting in scsi timeouts and the adapter being unusable until reboot. (BZ#2216499)
* rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring [8.9] (BZ#2216770)
* OCS 4.8 cephfs kernel crash : mds_dispatch ceph_handle_snap unable to handle kernel NULL (BZ#2218273)
* FJ8.6 Bug: System panic occurs because the list used by i40e driver is corrupted (BZ#2219262)
* st_gmac tx-checksum offload on vlan is not consistent with st_gmac interface (BZ#2219908)
* Regression of 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") (BZ#2220811)
* refcount_t overflow often happens in mem_cgroup_id_get_online() (BZ#2221011)
* Scheduler update (rhel8.8) (BZ#2221304)
* RHEL8.6 boot panic with message "kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:28!" (BZ#2222247)
* Enable conntrack clash resolution for GRE (BZ#2223543)
* Intel 8.8 BUG SPR perf: Workaround the UPI intel_uncore_has_discovery_tables issue on SPR MCC and LCC (BZ#2225514)
* KVM: x86: fix sending PV IPI (BZ#2226580)
* libceph: harden msgr2.1 frame segment length checks [8.x] (BZ#2227074)
Enhancement(s):
* Mellanox 8.7 FEAT mlx5: It's possible to enable LRO when XDP is active (BZ#2165585)
* Export symbol pci_find_host_bridge (BZ#2225335)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33656 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42896 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1637 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1829 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2002 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2124 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3390 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20593 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28466 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-35788 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-372.70.1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4789-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-08-29

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6Extended 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2108696 - CVE-2021-33656 kernel: when setting font with malicious data by ioctl PIO_FONT, kernel will write memory out of bounds

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

2179000 - CVE-2023-28466 kernel: tls: race condition in do_tls_getsockopt may lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference

2181891 - CVE-2023-1637 kernel: save/restore speculative MSRs during S3 suspend/resume

2187308 - CVE-2023-2002 Kernel: bluetooth: Unauthorized management command execution

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

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

2213260 - CVE-2023-3390 kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests

2215768 - CVE-2023-35788 kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt()

2217845 - CVE-2023-20593 hw: amd: Cross-Process Information Leak

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