RHSA-2024:1607 — 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 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.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: vmwgfx: NULL pointer dereference in vmw_cmd_dx_define_query (CVE-2022-38096)

• kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event's read_size (CVE-2023-6931)

• kernel: GSM multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-6546,ZDI-CAN-20527)

• kernel: CIFS Filesystem Decryption Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in function receive_encrypted_standard of client (CVE-2024-0565)

• kernel: use-after-free in amdgpu_cs_wait_all_fences in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c (CVE-2023-51042)

• kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (CVE-2021-33631)

• kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function (CVE-2024-1086)

Bug Fix(es):

• OCP 4.12 crashed due to use-after-free in libceph in rhel8 (JIRA:RHEL-21394)

• kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function (JIRA:RHEL-24010)

• Screen floods with random colour suggesting something not initialised (JIRA:RHEL-21055)

• kernel: vmxgfx: NULL pointer dereference in vmw_cmd_dx_define_query (JIRA:RHEL-22766)

• tx-checksumming required for accessing port in OpenShift for RHEL 8.6 (JIRA:RHEL-20822)

• kernel: CIFS Filesystem Decryption Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in function receive_encrypted_standard of client (JIRA:RHEL-22077)

• kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event's read_size (JIRA:RHEL-22930)

• rbd: don't move requests to the running list on errors [8.x] (JIRA:RHEL-24204)

• kernel: use-after-free in amdgpu_cs_wait_all_fences in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c (JIRA:RHEL-24479)

• ceph: several cap and snap fixes (JIRA:RHEL-20909)

• [RHVH] Migration hangs between RHVH release bellow 4.5.1 and RHVH over or equal 4.5.2 release (JIRA:RHEL-23063)

• unable to access smsc95xx based interface unless you start outgoing traffic. (JIRA:RHEL-25719)

• [RHEL8] ] BUG bio-696 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten (JIRA:RHEL-26101)

• kernel: GSM multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation (JIRA:RHEL-19954)

• backport smartpqi: fix disable_managed_interrupts (JIRA:RHEL-26139)

• kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (JIRA:RHEL-26331)

• ceph: always check dir caps asynchronously (JIRA:RHEL-27496)

Enhancement(s):

• [IBM 8.10 FEAT] Upgrade the qeth driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.4 (JIRA:RHEL-25811)