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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5622-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5622
Issue date: 2023-10-10
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2023-3609
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Summary:
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)
* kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nf_tables when processing batch requests can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-32233)
* kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Low memory deadlock with md devices and external (imsm) metadata handling (BZ#1703180)
* cifs: memory leak in smb2_query_symlink (BZ#2166706)
* bnxt_en: panic in bnxt_tx_int Redux (BZ#2175062)
* NFS client loop in BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION (BZ#2219604)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-3609
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important