Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1836-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1836-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1836
Issue date: 2024-04-16
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-33631
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Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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.

Description:

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event’s read_size (CVE-2023-6931)

* kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (CVE-2021-33631)

Bug Fix(es):

* Performance drop on Broadcom bnxt_en nic after OCP upgrade from OCP 4.12 to OCP 4.13 (4.18.0-372.32.1.el8_6.x86_64 to 5.14.0-284.32.1.el9_2.x86_64) (JIRA:RHEL-15379)

* High latency with Matrox mgag200 (JIRA:RHEL-16558)

* [regression][ext4][xfstests generic/094] Error reading from file with invalid argument (JIRA:RHEL-25435)

* kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event’s read_size (JIRA:RHEL-21646)

* xfs_growfs: XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA xfsctl failed: No space left on device (RHEL9) (JIRA:RHEL-28688)

* Memory corruption when using dm-crypt or dm-verity on RHEL-9 (JIRA:RHEL-26094)

* kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (JIRA:RHEL-26335)

Enhancement(s):

* [IBM 9.4 FEAT] Upgrade the qeth driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.4 (JIRA:RHEL-25812)

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2021-33631

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252731
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261976