RHSA-2024:5520 — Security Advisory

An update for kpatch-patch-4_18_0-477_43_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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.

This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. This patch module is targeted for kernel-4.18.0-477.43.1.el8_8.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: TIPC message reassembly use-after-free remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-36886)

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

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.