RHSA-2024:2006 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and 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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout() (CVE-2023-1192)
• kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup() (CVE-2023-4459)
• kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)
• kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (CVE-2023-7192)
• kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (CVE-2024-26586)
• kernel: netfilter: divide error in nft_limit_init (CVE-2021-46915)
• kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (CVE-2024-26602)

Bug Fix(es):

• kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout() (JIRA:RHEL-15155)
• kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (JIRA:RHEL-9225)
• kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup() (JIRA:RHEL-18083)
• dm multipath device suspend deadlocks waiting on a flush request (JIRA:RHEL-19107)
• kernel NULL pointer at RIP: 0010:kyber_has_work+0x1c/0x60 (JIRA:RHEL-21781)
• rbd: don't move requests to the running list on errors [8.x] (JIRA:RHEL-24200)
• TRIAGE CVE-2021-46915 kernel: netfilter: divide error in nft_limit_init (JIRA:RHEL-28178)
• kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (JIRA:RHEL-20295)
• kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (JIRA:RHEL-26385)
• kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (JIRA:RHEL-29180)

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 Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• 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 - 2154178 - CVE-2023-1192 kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout()
• BZ - 2219268 - CVE-2023-4459 kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup()
• BZ - 2224048 - CVE-2023-3812 kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags
• BZ - 2256279 - CVE-2023-7192 kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack()
• BZ - 2265645 - CVE-2024-26586 kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption
• BZ - 2266423 - CVE-2021-46915 kernel: netfilter: divide error in nft_limit_init
• BZ - 2267695 - CVE-2024-26602 kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier

CVEs

• CVE-2021-46915
• CVE-2023-1192
• CVE-2023-3812
• CVE-2023-4459
• CVE-2023-7192
• CVE-2024-26586
• CVE-2024-26602

References

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