RHSA-2024:5672 — 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: efivarfs: force RO when remounting if SetVariable is not supported (CVE-2023-52463)

• kernel: igc: avoid returning frame twice in XDP_REDIRECT (CVE-2024-26853)

• kernel: mm/hugetlb: fix missing hugetlb_lock for resv uncharge (CVE-2024-36000)

• kernel: bpf, sockmap: Don't let sock_map_{close,destroy,unhash} call itself (CVE-2023-52735)

• kernel: net: fix out-of-bounds access in ops_init (CVE-2024-36883)

• kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling (CVE-2024-38608)

• kernel: net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc() (CVE-2024-40995)

• kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41090)

• kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41091)

• kernel: NFSv4: Fix memory leak in nfs4_set_security_label (CVE-2024-41076)

• kernel: ice: Don't process extts if PTP is disabled (CVE-2024-42107)

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.