RHSA-2024:5883 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced 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 linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Reserved fields in guest message responses may not be zero initialized (AMD-SN-3007,CVE-2023-31346)

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2250458 - CVE-2023-31346 kernel: Reserved fields in guest message responses may not be zero initialized
• RHEL-49966 - Update linux-firmware to include QAT_402XX firmware [rhel-8.2.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2023-31346

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate