RHSA-2024:10943 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: 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: blk-rq-qos: fix crash on rq_qos_wait vs. rq_qos_wake_function race (CVE-2024-50082)

• kernel: arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support (CVE-2024-50099)

• kernel: xfrm: fix one more kernel-infoleak in algo dumping (CVE-2024-50110)

• kernel: xfrm: validate new SA's prefixlen using SA family when sel.family is unset (CVE-2024-50142)

• kernel: irqchip/gic-v4: Don't allow a VMOVP on a dying VPE (CVE-2024-50192)

• kernel: netfilter: nf_reject_ipv6: fix potential crash in nf_send_reset6() (CVE-2024-50256)

• kernel: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans (CVE-2024-50264)

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.