RHSA-2023:0400 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)
• hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715 (CVE-2021-26401)

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):

• kernel-rt: update to the latest RHEL7.9.z20 source tree (BZ#2152044)

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 Real Time 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2061700 - CVE-2021-26401 hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715
• BZ - 2067482 - CVE-2022-2964 kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device.

CVEs

• CVE-2021-26401
• CVE-2022-2964

References

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