RHSA-2024:0386 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · January 24, 2024

Updated · November 1, 2026

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch 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.

Description

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: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF (CVE-2023-4623)

  • kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

  • kernel: IGB driver inadequate buffer size for frames larger than MTU (CVE-2023-45871)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:0386 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update | PulseLinux