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: use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3564)
• kernel: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces (CVE-2022-4378)
• kernel: use-after-free in __nfs42_ssc_open() in fs/nfs/nfs4file.c leading to remote Denial of Service attack (CVE-2022-4379)
• kernel: Netfilter integer overflow vulnerability in nft_payload_copy_vlan (CVE-2023-0179)
• kernel: an out-of-bounds vulnerability in i2c-ismt driver (CVE-2022-2873)

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-9.1.z2 Batch (BZ#2160463)

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

Fixes

• BZ - 2119048 - CVE-2022-2873 kernel: an out-of-bounds vulnerability in i2c-ismt driver
• BZ - 2150999 - CVE-2022-3564 kernel: use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
• BZ - 2152548 - CVE-2022-4378 kernel: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces
• BZ - 2152807 - CVE-2022-4379 kernel: use-after-free in __nfs42_ssc_open() in fs/nfs/nfs4file.c leading to remote Denial of Service attack
• BZ - 2161713 - CVE-2023-0179 kernel: Netfilter integer overflow vulnerability in nft_payload_copy_vlan

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2873
• CVE-2022-3564
• CVE-2022-4378
• CVE-2022-4379
• CVE-2023-0179

References

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