RHSA-2024:1881 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended 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 kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation (CVE-2023-6240)
• kernel: tls: use-after-free with partial reads and async decrypt (CVE-2024-26582)
• kernel: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests (CVE-2024-26584)
• kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (CVE-2024-26586)

Bug Fix(es):

• [Lenovo RHEL9] Realtek patch for P1 G6 Audio (BZ#2208068)
• Please integrate commit b949ee6801f4 ("powerpc/fadump: invoke ibm,os-term with rtas_call_unlocked()") (JIRA:RHEL-17106)
• PVT:1050:XM:Nimitz Linux EEH Nimitz - After FATAL Injection BIT 13 on D10 Register, unable to see the htx traffic status after long time (JIRA:RHEL-22413)
• RHEL9.2 - Performance Degradation in the Case of Asymmetric Scheduler Domains in Linux (JIRA:RHEL-24862)
• kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (JIRA:RHEL-29186)
• kernel NULL pointer dereference from nvme_fc_io_getuuid+0xc/0x30 [nvme_fc] (JIRA:RHEL-29221)
• sched_setaffinity(2) returns undocumented error ENODEV (JIRA:RHEL-21140)
• kernel: tls: use-after-free with partial reads and async decrypt (JIRA:RHEL-26396)
• kernel: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation (JIRA:RHEL-27840)
• sched_setaffinity(2) doesn't return -1 for an empty mask (JIRA:RHEL-29540)
• [EMR] [TBOOT OS] SUT could not go to S3 state with RHEL 9.2 Tboot OS One CPU return -16 running BUSY (JIRA:RHEL-29665)
• ipoib mcast lockup fix (JIRA:RHEL-29923)
• ice 0000:6f:00.0: PTP failed to get time (JIRA:RHEL-30108)
• blk-mq: don't schedule blk-mq kworkers on isolated CPUs (JIRA:RHEL-30418)
• kernel: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests (JIRA:RHEL-30450)
• Kernel panic in skb_segment (JIRA:RHEL-30561)
• [IBM 9.4 FEAT] Update IBM vNIC Driver (ibmvnic) (JIRA:RHEL-28648)
• SCTP OOTB scenario in OVS/Netfilter where the SCTP connection can not be recovered by HB_REQ/HB_ACK (JIRA:RHEL-29949)

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 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2250843 - CVE-2023-6240 kernel: Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage in the RSA decryption operation
• BZ - 2265518 - CVE-2024-26582 kernel: tls: use-after-free with partial reads and async decrypt
• BZ - 2265519 - CVE-2024-26584 kernel: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests
• BZ - 2265645 - CVE-2024-26586 kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption

CVEs

• CVE-2023-6240
• CVE-2024-26582
• CVE-2024-26584
• CVE-2024-26586
• CVE-2024-35890

References

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