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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-5069-01 Important Kernel Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical reveals a significant software enhancement including numerous vulnerabilities addressed in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variants.
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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: kernel (5.14.0).
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)
* kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: fix chain binding transaction logic in the abort path of NFT_MSG_NEWRULE (CVE-2023-3610)
* kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function (CVE-2023-3776)
* kernel: netfilter: use-after-free due to improper element removal in nft_pipapo_remove() (CVE-2023-4004)
* kernel: netfilter: nf_tables_newrule when adding a rule with NFTA_RULE_CHAIN_ID leads to use-after-free (CVE-2023-4147)
* kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free in nft_chain_lookup_byid() (CVE-2023-31248)
* kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)
* kernel: save/restore speculative MSRs during S3 suspend/resume (CVE-2023-1637)
* hw: amd: Cross-Process Information Leak (CVE-2023-20593)
* kernel: bypass of shadow stack protection due to a logic error (CVE-2023-21102)
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):
* [Intel 9.3 BUG] [SPR][EMR][FHF] ACPI: Fix system hang during S3 wakeup (BZ#2218026)
* [Dell 9.2 BUG] Monitor lost after replug WD19TBS to SUT port wiith VGA/DVI to type-C dongle (BZ#2219463)
* rtmutex: Incorrect waiter woken when requeueing in rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() (BZ#2222121)
* RHEL AWS ARM Instability During Microshift e2e tests (BZ#2223310)
* RHEL 9.x updates for SEV-SNP guest support (BZ#2224587)
* Lock state corruption from nested rtmutex blocking in blk_flush_plug() (BZ#2225623)
* bpf_jit_limit hit again - copy_seccomp() fix (BZ#2226945)
* libceph: harden msgr2.1 frame segment length checks (BZ#2227070)
* Temporary values used for the FIPS integrity test should be zeroized after use (BZ#2227768)
* Important iavf bug fixes July 2023 (BZ#2228156)
* [i40e/ice] error: Cannot set interface MAC/vlanid to 1e:b7:e2:02:b1:aa/0 for ifname ens4f0 vf 0: Resource temporarily unavailable (BZ#2228158)
* lvconvert --splitcache, --uncache operations getting hung (BZ#2228481)
* perf: EMR core and uncore PMU support (BZ#2230175)
* NVIDIA - Grace: Backport i2c: tegra: Set ACPI node as primary fwnode (BZ#2230483)
* NVIDIA - Grace: Backport i2c: tegra: Fix PEC support for SMBUS block read (BZ#2230488)
* [Hyper-V][RHEL 9]incomplete fc_transport implementation in storvsc causes null dereference in fc_timed_out() (BZ#2230747)
* Kernel config option CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be disabled until it is enhanced (BZ#2231850)
* [RHEL 9][Hyper-V]Excessive hv_storvsc driver logging with srb_status SRB_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR (0x30) (BZ#2231990)
* RHEL-9: WARNING: bad unlock balance detected! (BZ#2232213)
* NVIDIA - Grace: Backport drm/ast patch expected for kernel 6.4 (BZ#2232302)
* [Lenovo 9.1 bug] RHEL 9 will hang when "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger". (BZ#2232700)
* [RHEL-9] bz2022169 in /kernel/general/process/reg-suit fails on aarch64 (/proc/[pid]/wchan broken) (BZ#2233928)
Enhancement(s):
* [Intel 9.3 FEAT] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Enable HWP IO boost for all servers (BZ#2210270)
* [Dell 9.3 FEAT] - New MB with AMP Codec Change on Maya Bay (audio driver) (BZ#2218960)
* [Lenovo 9.3 FEAT] MDRAID - Update to the latest upstream (BZ#2221170)
* [Intel 9.3 FEAT] [EMR] Add EMR support to uncore-frequency driver (BZ#2230169)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1637 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3390 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3610 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3776 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4004 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4147 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20593 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-21102 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-31248 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-35001 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
aarch64: bpftool-debuginfo-7.0.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-64k-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-64k-debug-devel-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-64k-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-64k-devel-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-64k-devel-matched-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-matched-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm perf-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-debuginfo-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm rtla-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
noarch: kernel-doc-5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: bpftool-debuginfo-7.0.0-284.30.1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5069-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-09-12

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

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

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

2213455 - CVE-2023-21102 kernel: bypass of shadow stack protection due to a logic error

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

2220892 - CVE-2023-35001 kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval()

2220893 - CVE-2023-31248 kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free in nft_chain_lookup_byid()

2225097 - CVE-2023-3776 kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function

2225198 - CVE-2023-3610 kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: fix chain binding transaction logic in the abort path of NFT_MSG_NEWRULE

2225239 - CVE-2023-4147 kernel: netfilter: nf_tables_newrule when adding a rule with NFTA_RULE_CHAIN_ID leads to use-after-free

2225275 - CVE-2023-4004 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free due to improper element removal in nft_pipapo_remove()

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