RHSA-2024:7427 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1 and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_138_1 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 1, 2024
Updated · October 31, 2026
Topic
An update for kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1 and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_138_1 is now available for 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
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-4.18.0-305.120.1.el8_4.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: TIPC message reassembly use-after-free remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-36886)
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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.