RHSA-2025:3961 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_112_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_121_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_124_1, and kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_85_1 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

This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. This patch module is targeted for kernel-5.14.0-70.85.1.el9_0.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount (CVE-2022-49541)

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

Fixes

• BZ - 2348119 - CVE-2022-49541 kernel: cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount

CVEs

• CVE-2022-49541

References

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