RHSA-2023:0526 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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.

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):

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.0.z6 Batch (BZ#2149955)

• DELL 9.0 RT: On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress (BZ#2154426)

• RT Debug bug: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46 (BZ#2160774)