Important: kpatch-patch security update

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 RDMA listen() (CVE-2021-4028)
• kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (CVE-2022-0492)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2027201 - CVE-2021-4028 kernel: use-after-free in RDMA listen()
• BZ - 2051505 - CVE-2022-0492 kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4028
• CVE-2022-0492

References

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