Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

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)
• ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)
• kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action (CVE-2022-4269)

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):

• RHEL9:[P10] With Guest Secure Boot and lockdown enabled, DLPAR operations can't be done (Rainier) (BZ#2107480)
• [RHEL 9.0] LTP Test failure and crash at fork14 on Sapphire Rapids Platinum 8280+ (BZ#2133084)
• RHEL9.0 - boot: Add secure boot trailer (BZ#2151529)
• 'date' command shows wrong time in nested KVM s390x guest (BZ#2158816)
• Kernel FIPS-140-3 requirements - part 3 - AES-XTS (BZ#2160176)
• RHEL 9.0.0 soft quota cannot exceed more the 5 warns which breaks timer functionality (BZ#2164263)
• In FIPS mode, the kernel should reject SHA-224, SHA-384, SHA-512-224, and SHA-512-256 as hashes for hash-based DRBGs, or provide an indicator after 2023-05-16 (BZ#2165131)
• [RHEL 9] FIPS: deadlock between PID 1 and "modprobe crypto-jitterentropy_rng" at boot, preventing system to boot. (BZ#2167762)

Enhancement(s):

• [Intel 9.2 FEAT] [SPR] CPU: AMX: Improve the init_fpstate setup code (BZ#2168383)

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 x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2150272 - CVE-2022-4269 kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action
• 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
• BZ - 2163379 - CVE-2023-0266 ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF

CVEs

• CVE-2022-3564
• CVE-2022-4269
• CVE-2022-4378
• CVE-2022-4379
• CVE-2023-0179
• CVE-2023-0266

References

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