RHSA-2025:1253 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format (CVE-2024-53104)
• kernel: mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in alloc_pages_bulk_noprof (CVE-2024-53113)

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2329817 - CVE-2024-53104 kernel: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format
• BZ - 2329924 - CVE-2024-53113 kernel: mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in alloc_pages_bulk_noprof

CVEs

• CVE-2024-53104
• CVE-2024-53113

References

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