RHSA-2023:1970 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

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

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):

• RHEL9.0 64TB/240c Denali: "vmcore failed, _exitcode:139" error observed while capturing vmcore during fadump after memory remove. Incomplete vmcore is captured. (BZ#2151214)

• Support cpuset.sched_load_balance by changing default CPUset directory structure. (BZ#2161106)

• CSB.V bit never becomes valid for NX Gzip job during LPAR migration. (BZ#2166251)

• Update intel_idle for Eaglestream/Sapphire Rapids support. (BZ#2168359)

• An application stopped on robust futex used via pthread_mutex_lock(). (BZ#2168837)

• FVTR1020:Rainier:Non-HMC:MPIPL Dump is not getting offloaded to Linux partition. (BZ#2170853)

• update qla2xxx driver to latest upstream. (BZ#2171812)

• MSFT MANA NET Patch RHEL-9: Fix accessing freed irq affinity_hint. (BZ#2175254)

• In FIPS mode, kernel does not transition into error state when RCT or APT health tests fail. (BZ#2181729)