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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1188-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1188
Issue date: 2024-03-06
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-43975
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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 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait() in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c (CVE-2021-43975)

* kernel: memory leak in drivers/hid/hid-elo.c (CVE-2022-27950)

* kernel: use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c (CVE-2022-1055)

* kernel: use-after-free when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled (CVE-2022-2938)

* kernel: u8 overflow problem in cfg80211_update_notlisted_nontrans() (CVE-2022-41674)

* kernel: use-after-free in bss_ref_get in net/wireless/scan.c (CVE-2022-42720)

* kernel: BSS list corruption in cfg80211_add_nontrans_list in net/wireless/scan.c (CVE-2022-42721)

* kernel: Denial of service in beacon protection for P2P-device (CVE-2022-42722)

* kernel: KVM: x86/mmu: race condition in direct_page_fault() (CVE-2022-45869)

* kernel: x86/mm: Randomize per-cpu entry area (CVE-2023-0597)

* kernel: Out-Of-Bounds Read vulnerability in smbCalcSize (CVE-2023-6606)

* kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (CVE-2023-7192)

* kernel: CIFS Filesystem Decryption Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in function receive_encrypted_standard of client (CVE-2024-0565)

* kernel: use-after-free during a race condition between a nonblocking atomic commit and a driver unload in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c (CVE-2023-51043)

Bug Fix(es):

* kernel: u8 overflow problem in cfg80211_update_notlisted_nontrans() (JIRA:RHEL-18732)

* kernel: use-after-free in bss_ref_get in net/wireless/scan.c (JIRA:RHEL-18733)

* kernel: BSS list corruption in cfg80211_add_nontrans_list in net/wireless/scan.c (JIRA:RHEL-18734)

* kernel: Denial of service in beacon protection for P2P-device (JIRA:RHEL-18735)

* kernel: x86/mm: Randomize per-cpu entry area (JIRA:RHEL-18817)

* kernel: KVM: x86/mmu: race condition in direct_page_fault() (JIRA:RHEL-18829)

* kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (JIRA:RHEL-20297)

* kernel: use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c (JIRA:RHEL-20363)

* kernel: Out-Of-Bounds Read vulnerability in smbCalcSize (JIRA:RHEL-21660)

* kernel: CIFS Filesystem Decryption Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in function receive_encrypted_standard of client (JIRA:RHEL-22075)

* kernel: use-after-free during a race condition between a nonblocking atomic commit and a driver unload in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c (JIRA:RHEL-23475)

* kernel: memory leak in drivers/hid/hid-elo.c (JIRA:RHEL-18557)

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait() in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c (JIRA:RHEL-18798)

* kernel: use-after-free when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled (JIRA:RHEL-21919)

* [RHVH] Migration hangs between RHVH release bellow 4.5.1 and RHVH over or equal 4.5.2 release (JIRA:RHEL-23061)

* backport smartpqi: fix disable_managed_interrupts (JIRA:RHEL-26137)

Enhancement(s):

* [MCHP 8.7 FEAT] Update smartpqi driver to latest upstream Second Set of Patches (JIRA:RHEL-21592)

* [IBM 8.10 FEAT] Upgrade the qeth driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.4 (JIRA:RHEL-25809)

Solution:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2021-43975

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024989
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069408
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070220
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120175
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134377
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134451
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134506
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134517
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151317
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165926
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253611
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256279
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258518
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260005