RHEA-2023:4543 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new kpatch-patch-4_18_0-477_21_1 package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The kpatch management tool provides a kernel patching infrastructure which allows you to patch a running kernel without rebooting or restarting any processes.

This enhancement update adds the kpatch-patch-4_18_0-477_21_1 package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. This is an empty kpatch-patch package, which does not contain any real patches. It is only a method to subscribe to the kpatch stream for kernel-4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8. Future updates to this package will contain kernel live patches. (BZ#2226157)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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