RHSA-2024:4108 — 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 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout (CVE-2024-27397)

• kernel: xen-netfront: Add missing skb_mark_for_recycle (CVE-2024-27393)

• kernel: netfilter: nft_flow_offload: reset dst in route object after setting up flow (CVE-2024-27403)

• kernel: smb: client: fix UAF in smb2_reconnect_server() (CVE-2024-35870)

• kernel: net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree (CVE-2024-35960)

• kernel: net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior (CVE-2024-35958)

• kernel: net: hns3: do not allow call hns3_nic_net_open repeatedly (CVE-2021-47400)

• kernel: octeontx2-af: avoid off-by-one read from userspace (CVE-2024-36957)

Bug Fix(es):

• lpfc updates for rh9.4 - (14.2.0.15 14.2.0.16 patches) (JIRA:RHEL-35144)

• cifs - kernel panic with cifs_put_smb_ses (JIRA:RHEL-25787)

• Rhel-9.2- observed "vas: Failed reconfig VAS capabilities with DLPAR " message while running proc add rem mix operations in shared mode[5.14.0-252.el9.ppc64le][P9] (JIRA:RHEL-34086)

• CNB95: dpll: rebase DPLL to upstream v6.8 (JIRA:RHEL-36570)

• Boot process stalls during initial loading of RHEL9.2 between the 59th and 100th AC cycle (JIRA:RHEL-36681)

• ice: DPLL-related fixes (JIRA:RHEL-36714)

• [HPE RHEL 9.2 BUG] x86/platform/uv: UV support for sub-NUMA clustering (JIRA:RHEL-37595)

• CNB95: net/sched: update TC core to upstream v6.8 (JIRA:RHEL-37640)

• [ice] Entering Safe Mode because DDP package could not be loaded and hit panic then (JIRA:RHEL-38906)

• [ice] Add automatic VF reset on Tx MDD events (JIRA:RHEL-39082)

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.