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Red Hat 8 RHSA-2023:5244-01 Important: Kernel Update Details

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Stay informed about the newest security patches for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, featuring essential kernel bug resolutions and improvements.
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: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb (CVE-2023-3090)
* kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)
* 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: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)
* kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt() (CVE-2023-35788)
* kernel: bluetooth: Unauthorized management command execution (CVE-2023-2002)
* hw: amd: Cross-Process Information Leak (CVE-2023-20593)
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):
* low memory deadlock with md devices and external (imsm) metadata handling - - requires a kernfs notification backport (BZ#2208540)
* Intel 8.9 BUG, SPR EMR FHF ACPI: Fix system hang during S3 wakeup (BZ#2218025)
* OCS 4.8, cephfs kernel crash: mds_dispatch ceph_handle_snap unable to handle kernel NULL (BZ#2218271)
* st_gmac: tx-checksum offload on vlan is not consistent with st_gmac interface (BZ#2219907)
* refcount_t overflow often happens in mem_cgroup_id_get_online() (BZ#2221010)
* avoid unnecessary page fault retires on shared memory types (BZ#2221100)
* enable conntrack clash resolution for GRE (BZ#2223542)
* ice: avoid bonding causing auxiliary plug/unplug under RTNL lock (BZ#2224515)
* libceph: harden msgr2.1 frame segment length checks [8.x] (BZ#2227073)
* Important iavf bug fixes July 2023 (BZ#2228161)
* i40e error: Cannot set interface MAC/vlanid to 1e:b7:e2:02:b1:aa/0 for ifname ens4f0 vf 0: Resource temporarily unavailable (BZ#2228163)
* oops on cifs_mount due to null tcon (BZ#2229128)
* iptables argument "--suppl-groups" in extension "owner" does not work in RHEL8 (BZ#2229715)
* Hyper-V RHEL 8: incomplete fc_transport implementation in storvsc causes null dereference in fc_timed_out() (BZ#2230743)
* Withdrawal: GFS2: could not freeze filesystem: -16 (BZ#2231825)
* RHEL 8 Hyper-V: Excessive hv_storvsc driver logging with srb_status SRB_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR (0x30) (BZ#2231988)
* RHEL-8: crypto: rng - Fix lock imbalance in crypto_del_rng (BZ#2232215)
* Intel 8.9 iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2232399)
* Hyper-V RHEL-8 hv_storvsc driver logging excessive storvsc_log events for storvsc_on_io_completion() function (BZ#2233227)
Enhancement(s):
* Intel 8.9 FEAT, EMR perf: Add EMR CPU PMU support (BZ#2230152)
* Intel 8.9 FEAT, SPR EMR power: Add uncore frequency control driver (BZ#2230158)
* Intel 8.9 FEAT EMR perf: RAPL PMU support on EMR (BZ#2230162)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2002 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3090 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3390 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-2023-20593 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-35001 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-35788 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-477.27.1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5244-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2023-09-19

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

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

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

2218672 - CVE-2023-3090 kernel: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb

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

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

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

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