RHSA-2024:1653 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 3, 2024
Updated · October 9, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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.
Description
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: use-after-free in drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c due to race condition (CVE-2023-1118)
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kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (CVE-2021-33631)
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kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (CVE-2024-26602)