Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: Small table perturb size in the TCP source port generation algorithm can lead to information leak (CVE-2022-1012)
• kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1729)
• kernel: a use-after-free write in the netfilter subsystem can lead to privilege escalation to root (CVE-2022-1966)
• kernel: buffer overflow in IPsec ESP transformation code (CVE-2022-27666)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.0.z1 Batch (BZ#2089492)

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2061633 - CVE-2022-27666 kernel: buffer overflow in IPsec ESP transformation code
• BZ - 2064604 - CVE-2022-1012 kernel: Small table perturb size in the TCP source port generation algorithm can lead to information leak
• BZ - 2086753 - CVE-2022-1729 kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation
• BZ - 2092427 - CVE-2022-1966 kernel: a use-after-free write in the netfilter subsystem can lead to privilege escalation to root

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1012
• CVE-2022-1729
• CVE-2022-1966
• CVE-2022-27666

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.0_release_notes/index