RHSA-2024:11313 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

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: hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field (CVE-2021-47384)

• kernel: stm class: Fix a double free in stm_register_device() (CVE-2024-38627)

• kernel: vmci: prevent speculation leaks by sanitizing event in event_deliver() (CVE-2024-39499)

• kernel: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown (CVE-2024-40989)

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.