RHSA-2022:6243 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• information leak in scsi_ioctl() (CVE-2022-0494)

• A kernel-info-leak issue in pfkey_register (CVE-2022-1353)

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):

• unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000138040000237 (BZ#2100406)

• bnxt_en: Update driver to the latest upstream version (BZ#2100422)

• too long timeout value with TIME_WAIT status of conntrack entry (BZ#2104004)

• tcp: request_sock leak in Calico OCP (BZ#2104671)

• net: openvswitch: fix parsing of nw_proto for IPv6 fragments (BZ#2106704)

• ipv6: 'disable_policy' is ignored for addresses configured on a down interface (BZ#2109972)

• Percpu counter usage is gradually getting increasing during podman container recreation. (BZ#2110040)

• trouble re-assigning MACs to VFs, ice stricter than other drivers (BZ#2111937)

• ceph: add support for rxbounce option (BZ#2112967)