RHSA-2024:2628 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel-rt 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• CVE-2024-25743 hw: amd: Instruction raise #VC exception at exit (AMD-SN-3008,CVE-2024-25742,CVE-2024-25743)

Bug Fix(es):

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.2 ad hoc schedule build (JIRA:RHEL-32985)

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 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2270836 - CVE-2024-25742 CVE-2024-25743 hw: amd: Instruction raise #VC exception at exit

CVEs

• CVE-2024-25742
• CVE-2024-25743

References

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