RHSA-2024:1877 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 18, 2024
Updated · October 15, 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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hw: cpu: AMD CPUs may transiently execute beyond unconditional direct branch (CVE-2021-26341)
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kernel: use-after-free and memory errors in ext4 when mounting and operating on a corrupted image (CVE-2022-1184)
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kernel: NULL pointer dereference in x86_emulate_insn may lead to DoS (CVE-2022-1852)
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kernel: use after free flaw in l2cap_conn_del in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3640)
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kernel: Information leak in l2cap_parse_conf_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-42895)
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kernel: veth: ensure skb entering GRO are not cloned. (CVE-2021-47099)