RHSA-2024:1253 — Security Advisory

An update for kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_64_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_70_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_75_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_80_1, and kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_85_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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.

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier pruning leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe (CVE-2023-2163)

• kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)

• kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)

• kernel: use after free in unix_stream_sendpage (CVE-2023-4622)

• kernel: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination (CVE-2024-0646)

• kernel: GSM multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-6546)

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.