RHSA-2023:1556 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt 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.

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)

• kernel: net/ulp: use-after-free in listening ULP sockets (CVE-2023-0461)

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 RHEL-8.4: disable KASAN, KCSAN and UBSAN for kernel-rt (BZ#2165124)

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.4.z16 source tree (async) (BZ#2183403)