RHSA-2024:8157 — 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: Local information disclosure on Intel(R) Atom(R) processors (CVE-2023-28746)

• kernel: hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field (CVE-2021-47385)

• kernel: net/sched: taprio: extend minimum interval restriction to entire cycle too (CVE-2024-36244)

• kernel: xfs: fix log recovery buffer allocation for the legacy h_size fixup (CVE-2024-39472)

• kernel: firmware: cs_dsp: Use strnlen() on name fields in V1 wmfw files (CVE-2024-41056)

• kernel: ibmvnic: Add tx check to prevent skb leak (CVE-2024-41066)

• kernel: pinctrl: fix deadlock in create_pinctrl() when handling -EPROBE_DEFER (CVE-2024-42090)

• kernel: sched: act_ct: take care of padding in struct zones_ht_key (CVE-2024-42272)

• 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.