RHSA-2024:3461 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout (CVE-2024-26643)

• kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: disallow anonymous set with timeout flag (CVE-2024-26642)

• kernel: netfilter: nft_ct: sanitize layer 3 and 4 protocol number in custom expectations (CVE-2024-26673)

• kernel: ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref (CVE-2024-26735)

• kernel: net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth (CVE-2024-26804)

• kernel: cifs: fix underflow in parse_server_interfaces() (CVE-2024-26828)

• kernel: fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection() (CVE-2024-26993)

Bug Fix(es):

• lan78xx changes for 9.2.z, to fix link speed change exception and other bug fixes (JIRA:RHEL-34926)

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.