RHSA-2024:7429 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553 and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_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_0-553 and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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-4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41090)
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kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41091)
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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.