RHSA-2024:5259 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle 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: FUSE allows UAF reads of write() buffers, allowing theft of (partial) /etc/shadow hashes (CVE-2022-1011)

• net: fix __dst_negative_advice() race (CVE-2024-36971)

Bug Fix(es):

• kernel.spec: run initramfs generation in %post (not only in %posttrans) (RHEL-3292)

• tcp: fix zero cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction (RHEL-43212)

• epoll: fix use-after-free in eventpoll_release_file (RHEL-39665)

• RHEL 7.9: include [net] netfilter: ipset: fix ip_set_list allocation failure (RHEL-6204)

• gfs2: The gfs2_logd process to hang or stall which causes a performance degradation on the gfs2 filesystem (RHEL-8427)

• [rhel7] gfs2: quota_change%u corruption (RHEL-37473)

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.