RHSA-2023:5603 — 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: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128)

• kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free in nft_chain_lookup_byid() (CVE-2023-31248)

• kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)

• kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt() (CVE-2023-35788)

• kernel: hash collisions in the IPv6 connection lookup table (CVE-2023-1206)

• kernel: Spectre v2 SMT mitigations problem (CVE-2023-1998)

• kernel: fbcon: shift-out-of-bounds in fbcon_set_font() (CVE-2023-3161)

• kernel: denial of service problem in net/unix/diag.c (CVE-2023-28327)

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.z12 Batch (BZ#2232645)