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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:0724-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0724
Issue date: 2024-02-07
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-3640
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Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

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 sch_qfq network scheduler (CVE-2023-4921)

* kernel: inactive elements in nft_pipapo_walk (CVE-2023-6817)

* kernel: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination (CVE-2024-0646)

* kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() (CVE-2021-3640)

* kernel: improper input validation may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2021-4204)

* kernel: memory leak for large arguments in video_usercopy function in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c (CVE-2021-30002)

* kernel: eBPF verification flaw (CVE-2021-34866)

* kernel: smb2_ioctl_query_info NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2022-0168)

* kernel: Linux ebpf logic vulnerability leads to critical memory read and write gaining root privileges (CVE-2022-0500)

* kernel: NULL pointer dereference in udf_expand_file_adinicbdue() during writeback (CVE-2022-0617)

* kernel: possible race condition in drivers/tty/tty_buffers.c (CVE-2022-1462)

* kernel: buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() (CVE-2022-2078)

* kernel: nf_tables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2586)

* kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc message handling issue (CVE-2022-2663)

* kernel: memory leak in ipv6_renew_options() (CVE-2022-3524)

* kernel: nfp: use-after-free in area_cache_get() (CVE-2022-3545)

* kernel: data races around icsk->icsk_af_ops in do_ipv6_setsockopt (CVE-2022-3566)

* kernel: Rate limit overflow messages in r8152 in intr_callback (CVE-2022-3594)

* kernel: memory leak in l2cap_recv_acldata of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3619)

* kernel: denial of service in follow_page_pte in mm/gup.c due to poisoned pte entry (CVE-2022-3623)

* kernel: Double-free in split_2MB_gtt_entry when function intel_gvt_dma_map_guest_page failed (CVE-2022-3707)

* kernel: possible to use the debugger to write zero into a location of choice (CVE-2022-21499)

* kernel: local privileges escalation in kernel/bpf/verifier.c (CVE-2022-23222)

* kernel: Executable Space Protection Bypass (CVE-2022-25265)

* kernel: double free in usb_8dev_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c (CVE-2022-28388)

* kernel: double free in ems_usb_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c (CVE-2022-28390)

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2021-3640

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946279
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980646
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2000457
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037386
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039178
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043520
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044578
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051444
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053632
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2055499
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073064
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073091
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2074208
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078466
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2084183
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2096178
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2114878
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2115278
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123056
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124788
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2137979
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143893
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148520
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149024
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