RHSA-2024:3178 — Security Advisory

An update for linux-firmware 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 linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.

Security Fix(es):

• hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

• hw: amd: INVD instruction may lead to a loss of SEV-ES guest machine memory integrity problem (CVE-2023-20592)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes linked from the References section.