RHSA-2024:10939 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: net/smc: fix illegal rmb_desc access in SMC-D connection dump (CVE-2024-26615)

• kernel: block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media (CVE-2024-43854)

• kernel: iommu: Restore lost return in iommu_report_device_fault() (CVE-2024-44994)

• kernel: netfilter: flowtable: initialise extack before use (CVE-2024-45018)

• kernel: selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook (CVE-2024-46695)

• kernel: net: avoid potential underflow in qdisc_pkt_len_init() with UFO (CVE-2024-49949)

• kernel: netfilter: nft_payload: sanitize offset and length before calling skb_checksum() (CVE-2024-50251)

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.