RHSA-2024:2008 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout() (CVE-2023-1192)

• kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup() (CVE-2023-4459)

• kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)

• kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (CVE-2023-7192)

• kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (CVE-2024-26586)

• kernel: netfilter: divide error in nft_limit_init (CVE-2021-46915)

• kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (CVE-2024-26602)