RHSA-2023:1659 — Security Advisory

An update for kpatch-patch 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.

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):

• kernel: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces (CVE-2022-4378)

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

• kernel: FUSE filesystem low-privileged user privileges escalation (CVE-2023-0386)

• kpatch: mm/mremap.c: incomplete fix for CVE-2022-41222 (CVE-2023-1476)

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.