Important: kpatch-patch security update

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support.

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 is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Use After Free in unix_gc() which could result in a local privilege escalation (CVE-2021-0920)
• kernel: use-after-free in RDMA listen() (CVE-2021-4028)
• kernel: possible privileges escalation due to missing TLB flush (CVE-2022-0330)
• kernel: remote stack overflow via kernel panic on systems using TIPC may lead to DoS (CVE-2022-0435)
• kernel: failing usercopy allows for use-after-free exploitation (CVE-2022-22942)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2027201 - CVE-2021-4028 kernel: use-after-free in RDMA listen()
• BZ - 2031930 - CVE-2021-0920 kernel: Use After Free in unix_gc() which could result in a local privilege escalation
• BZ - 2042404 - CVE-2022-0330 kernel: possible privileges escalation due to missing TLB flush
• BZ - 2044809 - CVE-2022-22942 kernel: failing usercopy allows for use-after-free exploitation
• BZ - 2048738 - CVE-2022-0435 kernel: remote stack overflow via kernel panic on systems using TIPC may lead to DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2021-0920
• CVE-2021-4028
• CVE-2022-0330
• CVE-2022-0435
• CVE-2022-22942

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important