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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1268-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1268
Issue date: 2024-03-12
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2022-3545
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Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service.

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: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001,ZDI-CAN-20721)

* hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability (CVE-2022-40982,Downfall)

* kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)

* kernel: fbcon: out-of-sync arrays in fbcon_mode_deleted due to wrong con2fb_map assignment (CVE-2023-38409)

* kernel: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF (CVE-2023-4623)

* kernel: null-ptr-deref vulnerabilities in sl_tx_timeout in drivers/net/slip (CVE-2022-41858)

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

* kernel: use-after-free in l2cap_sock_release in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c (CVE-2023-40283)

* kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

* kernel: IGB driver inadequate buffer size for frames larger than MTU (CVE-2023-45871)

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class function (CVE-2023-31436)

* 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: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)

* kernel: vmwgfx: NULL pointer dereference in vmw_cmd_dx_define_query (CVE-2022-38096)

* kernel: use-after-free in sch_qfq network scheduler (CVE-2023-4921)

Bug Fix(es):

* kernel: fbcon: out-of-sync arrays in fbcon_mode_deleted due to wrong con2fb_map assignment (JIRA:RHEL-1203)

* How to reduce or prevent thousands of kworker/events_freezable_power_efficient threads being created every time multipath -ll is run (JIRA:RHEL-15054)

* kernel: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF (JIRA:RHEL-16461)

* [SanityOnly][kernel]BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35 at: sock_map_update_elem_sys+0x85/0x2a0 (JIRA:RHEL-6126)

* kernel: hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability (JIRA:RHEL-9246)

* ipoib mcast lockup fix (JIRA:RHEL-19695)

Solution:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2022-3545

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133452
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144379
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161310
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192671
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213260
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2220892
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223949
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225191
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2230042
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231800
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237757
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241924
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244723
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245514
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253908
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255139