RHSA-2022:8765 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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: openvswitch: integer underflow leads to out-of-bounds write in reserve_sfa_size() (CVE-2022-2639)

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):

• SNO Crashed twice - kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:28 (BZ#2132064)
• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.4.z14 source tree. (BZ#2144040)

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time - Telecommunications Update Service 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV - Telecommunications Update Service 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2084479 - CVE-2022-2639 kernel: openvswitch: integer underflow leads to out-of-bounds write in reserve_sfa_size()

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2639

References

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