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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: kernel-rt security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:8614-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8614
Issue date: 2024-10-30
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-47384
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Summary:

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: ovl: fix use after free in struct ovl_aio_req (CVE-2023-1252)

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

* kernel: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage (CVE-2023-52489)

* kernel: blk-mq: fix IO hang from sbitmap wakeup race (CVE-2024-26671)

* kernel: fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats (CVE-2024-26686)

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

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

* kernel: hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field (CVE-2021-47384)

* kernel: mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect (CVE-2024-36889)

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

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

* kernel: filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode (CVE-2024-41049)

* kernel: mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() (CVE-2024-41055)

* kernel: nvmet: fix a possible leak when destroy a ctrl during qp establishment (CVE-2024-42152)

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-2021-47384

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176140
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268118
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269189
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272811
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273109
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275604
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278176
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282356
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2284571
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297544
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297582
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300422
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300429
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2301519