Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7379-01 - An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel-rt security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:7379-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7379
Issue date: 2023-11-21
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2022-27672
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Summary:
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)
* kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)
* kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)
* kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)
* kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow (CVE-2023-42753)
* kernel: AMD: Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions (CVE-2022-27672)
* hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability (CVE-2022-40982)
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2022-27672
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7027704
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174765
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223949
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224048
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225201
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225511
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239843
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241924