RHSA-2024:7003 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 24, 2024

Updated · October 31, 2026

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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.

Description

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

  • kernel: fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection() (CVE-2024-26993)

  • kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (CVE-2024-41071)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:7003 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update | PulseLinux