RHSA-2024:3462 — Security Advisory

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.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• RHEL: Add Spectre-BHB mitigation for AmpereOne (CVE-2023-3006)

• kernel: net:emac/emac-mac: Fix a use after free in emac_mac_tx_buf_send (CVE-2021-47013)

• kernel: net: bridge: data races indata-races in br_handle_frame_finish() (CVE-2023-52578)

Bug Fix(es):

• XFS: thaw operation hungs if caches are dropped while FS is frozen (JIRA:RHEL-34522)