RHSA-2024:0723 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 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: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination (CVE-2024-0646)

• kernel: sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope (CVE-2023-1074)

• kernel: NULL pointer dereference in nvmet_tcp_build_iovec (CVE-2023-6356)

• kernel: NULL pointer dereference in nvmet_tcp_execute_request (CVE-2023-6535)

• kernel: NULL pointer dereference in __nvmet_req_complete (CVE-2023-6536)

• kernel: Out-Of-Bounds Read vulnerability in smbCalcSize (CVE-2023-6606)

• kernel: OOB Access in smb2_dump_detail (CVE-2023-6610)

• kernel: use-after-free in IPv4 IGMP (CVE-2023-6932)

• kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (CVE-2023-7192)

• kernel: drivers/usb/storage/ene_ub6250.c (CVE-2023-45862)

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.