RHSA-2023:0114 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

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: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)

• kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

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):

• The latest RHEL 8.7.z1 kernel changes need to be merged into the RT source tree to keep source parity between the two kernels. (BZ#2137411)

• [DELL EMC 8.6-RT BUG] System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139867)