RHSA-2024:0725 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

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.