Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1729)

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):

• The latest RHEL 8.6.z1 kernel changes need to be merged into the RT source tree to keep source parity between the two kernels. (BZ#2098244)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2086753 - CVE-2022-1729 kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1729

References

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