RHSA-2024:1304 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel 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 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: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (CVE-2022-0480)

Bug Fix(es):

• [RHEL9] Add various *.peak control files to cgroup v2 (JIRA:RHEL-22850)

• RHEL9 Guest on Google Cloud panics on reading pvpanic device capabilities (JIRA:RHEL-23858)

• raid5: read data is wrong when recovery happens (JIRA:RHEL-23882)

• md/raid5: release batch_last before waiting for another stripe_head (JIRA:RHEL-24512)

• [regression][ext4][xfstests generic/094] Error reading from file with invalid argument (JIRA:RHEL-25436)

• bpf: Fix elem_size not being set for inner maps (JIRA:RHEL-25764)

• Backport "crypto: rsa - allow only odd e and restrict value in FIPS mode" (JIRA:RHEL-26078)

• kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (JIRA:RHEL-8911)

• [HPEMC RHEL 9.3 BUG] tools/power/x86 intel-speed-select crashes on systems with more than 8 sockets (JIRA:RHEL-17907)

• IPoIB: fix PKEY creation (JIRA:RHEL-22221)

• Memory corruption when using dm-crypt or dm-verity on RHEL-9 (JIRA:RHEL-26095)

• backport smartpqi: fix disable_managed_interrupts (JIRA:RHEL-26143)

• ffdhe* algortihms introduced in 0a2e5b909023 as .fips_allowed=1 lack pairwise consistency tests (JIRA:RHEL-27007)

Enhancement(s):

• s390/qeth: Fix vipa deletion (JIRA:RHEL-25813)