RHSA-2024:4107 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service.

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: race condition in snd_pcm_hw_free leading to use-after-free (CVE-2022-1048)

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

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

Bug Fix(es):

• core: backport rps_default_mask support (JIRA:RHEL-26427)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.