Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3854-03 - An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include double free and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:3854-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3854
Issue date: 2024-06-12
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-5090
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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 Moderate. 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: KVM: SVM: improper check in svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception allows direct access to host x2apic msrs (CVE-2023-5090)
* kernel: bluetooth: bt_sock_ioctl race condition leads to use-after-free in bt_sock_recvmsg (CVE-2023-51779)
* kernel: kvm: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache (CVE-2024-26598)
* kernel: net/mlx5e: fix a potential double-free in fs_any_create_groups (CVE-2023-52667)
Bug Fix:
* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.2 ad hoc schedule build (JIRA:RHEL-38545)
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-2023-5090
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248122
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256822
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265801
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281350