RHSA-2024:8107 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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: ovl: fix use after free in struct ovl_aio_req (CVE-2023-1252)

• kernel: udp: do not accept non-tunnel GSO skbs landing in a tunnel (CVE-2024-35884)

• kernel: watchdog: Fix possible use-after-free by calling del_timer_sync() (CVE-2021-47321)

• kernel: mlxsw: spectrum: Protect driver from buggy firmware (CVE-2021-47560)

• kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix off by one in qla_edif_app_getstats() (CVE-2024-36025)

• kernel: scsi: lpfc: Move NPIV's transport unregistration to after resource clean up (CVE-2024-36952)

• kernel: net: openvswitch: fix overwriting ct original tuple for ICMPv6 (CVE-2024-38558)

• kernel: md/raid5: fix deadlock that raid5d() wait for itself to clear MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING (CVE-2024-39476)

• kernel: ext4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state->lock access in __ext4_fill_super() (CVE-2024-40998)

• kernel: net/sched: Fix UAF when resolving a clash (CVE-2024-41040)

• kernel: tipc: Return non-zero value from tipc_udp_addr2str() on error (CVE-2024-42284)

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.