Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2006-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:2006-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006
Issue date: 2024-04-23
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-46915
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Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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:

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout() (CVE-2023-1192)

* kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup() (CVE-2023-4459)

* kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)

* kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (CVE-2023-7192)

* kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (CVE-2024-26586)

* kernel: netfilter: divide error in nft_limit_init (CVE-2021-46915)

* kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (CVE-2024-26602)

Bug Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout() (JIRA:RHEL-15155)

* kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (JIRA:RHEL-9225)

* kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup() (JIRA:RHEL-18083)

* dm multipath device suspend deadlocks waiting on a flush request (JIRA:RHEL-19107)

* kernel NULL pointer at RIP: 0010:kyber_has_work+0x1c/0x60 (JIRA:RHEL-21781)

* rbd: don’t move requests to the running list on errors [8.x] (JIRA:RHEL-24200)

* TRIAGE CVE-2021-46915 kernel: netfilter: divide error in nft_limit_init (JIRA:RHEL-28178)

* kernel: refcount leak in ctnetlink_create_conntrack() (JIRA:RHEL-20295)

* kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (JIRA:RHEL-26385)

* kernel: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack corruption (JIRA:RHEL-29180)

Solution:

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

CVEs:

CVE-2021-46915

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2154178
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224048
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256279
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265645
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266423
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267695