RHSA-2024:5365 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel-rt 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: wifi: ath9k: delay all of ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet() until init is complete (CVE-2024-26897)

• kernel: wifi: rtl8xxxu: add cancel_work_sync() for c2hcmd_work (CVE-2024-27052)

• kernel: wifi: ath10k: fix NULL pointer dereference in ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_mgmt_tx_compl_ev() (CVE-2023-52651)

• kernel: wifi: cfg80211: check A-MSDU format more carefully (CVE-2024-35937)

• kernel: platform/x86: wmi: Fix opening of char device (CVE-2023-52864)

• kernel: net: CVE-2024-36971 kernel: UAF in network route management (CVE-2024-36971)

• kernel: net/mlx5: Add a timeout to acquire the command queue semaphore (CVE-2024-38556)

• kernel: stm class: Fix a double free in stm_register_device() (CVE-2024-38627)

Bug Fix(es):

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.2 ad hoc schedule build (JIRA:RHEL-52875)

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.