RHSA-2023:0499 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · January 30, 2023
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for kpatch-patch 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 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
This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)
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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.