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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:8617-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8617
Issue date: 2024-10-30
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-47383
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Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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):

* hw: cpu: intel: Native Branch History Injection (BHI) (CVE-2024-2201)

* kernel: tcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy (CVE-2024-26640)

* kernel: mptcp: fix data re-injection from stale subflow (CVE-2024-26826)

* kernel: af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect() (CVE-2024-26923)

* kernel: mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del (CVE-2024-26961)

* kernel: scsi: core: Fix unremoved procfs host directory regression (CVE-2024-26935)

* kernel: tty: Fix out-of-bound vmalloc access in imageblit (CVE-2021-47383)

* kernel: net/sched: taprio: extend minimum interval restriction to entire cycle too (CVE-2024-36244)

* kernel: xfs: fix log recovery buffer allocation for the legacy h_size fixup (CVE-2024-39472)

* kernel: netfilter: nft_inner: validate mandatory meta and payload (CVE-2024-39504)

* kernel: USB: class: cdc-wdm: Fix CPU lockup caused by excessive log messages (CVE-2024-40904)

* kernel: mptcp: ensure snd_una is properly initialized on connect (CVE-2024-40931)

* kernel: ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe() (CVE-2024-40960)

* kernel: ext4: do not create EA inode under buffer lock (CVE-2024-40972)

* kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix potential hung tasks during chip recovery (CVE-2024-40977)

* kernel: net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc() (CVE-2024-40995)

* kernel: ext4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state->lock access in __ext4_fill_super() (CVE-2024-40998)

* kernel: netpoll: Fix race condition in netpoll_owner_active (CVE-2024-41005)

* kernel: xfs: don't walk off the end of a directory data block (CVE-2024-41013)

* kernel: xfs: add bounds checking to xlog_recover_process_data (CVE-2024-41014)

* kernel: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media (CVE-2024-43854)

* kernel: netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use (CVE-2024-45018)

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:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2021-47383

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268118
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270100
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275604
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2277171
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278176
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278235
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282357
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293654
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296067
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297476
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297488
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297515
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297544
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297556
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297561
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297579
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297582
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297589
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300296
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300297
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311715