RHSA-2024:6744 — 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 Moderate. 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: Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix deadlock (CVE-2024-26886)

• kernel: crypto: qat - resolve race condition during AER recovery (CVE-2024-26974)

• kernel: tty: n_gsm: require CAP_NET_ADMIN to attach N_GSM0710 ldisc (CVE-2023-52880)

• kernel: cpufreq: exit() callback is optional (CVE-2024-38615)

• kernel: cppc_cpufreq: Fix possible null pointer dereference (CVE-2024-38573)

• kernel: scsi: qedf: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated (CVE-2024-38559)

• kernel: ACPICA: Revert "ACPICA: avoid Info: mapping multiple BARs. Your kernel is fine." (CVE-2024-40984)

• kernel: sched/deadline: Fix task_struct reference leak (CVE-2024-41023)

• kernel: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed (CVE-2024-41031)

• kernel: mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed (CVE-2024-42241)

• kernel: mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray (CVE-2024-42243)

• kernel: net, sunrpc: Remap EPERM in case of connection failure in xs_tcp_setup_socket (CVE-2024-42246)

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.