RHSA-2023:7417 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (CVE-2023-1829)
• kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)
• kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function (CVE-2023-3776)
• kernel: netfilter: use-after-free due to improper element removal in nft_pipapo_remove() (CVE-2023-4004)

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2188470 - CVE-2023-1829 kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter
• BZ - 2225097 - CVE-2023-3776 kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function
• BZ - 2225201 - CVE-2023-3609 kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails
• BZ - 2225275 - CVE-2023-4004 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free due to improper element removal in nft_pipapo_remove()

CVEs

• CVE-2023-1829
• CVE-2023-3609
• CVE-2023-3776
• CVE-2023-4004

References

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