RHSA-2024:1840 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt 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 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

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

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

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.