Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: kernel (4.18.0). (BZ#2165648)

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: 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):

• RHEL 8.7 - Outputs of lsmem, lparstat, numactl and /proc/meminfo show wrong value of memory when LMB size is set to 4GB. (BZ#2140092)
• RHEL8.4 - boot: Add secure boot trailer (BZ#2151532)
• Concurrent reading of /proc/cpuinfo by multiple tasks causes soft lockup (BZ#2154441)
• GSS: OCP 4.10.30 node crash after ODF upgrade : unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 : ceph_get_snap_realm+0x68/0xa0 [ceph] (BZ#2155799)
• cgroup: Backport cgroup_mutex performance patches (BZ#2160165)
• Redhat OpenShift: Error downloading big ZIP files inside pod on power OCP and pod getting restarted (BZ#2160223)
• i40e/iavf: VF reset task fails "Never saw reset" with 5 second timeout per VF (BZ#2160462)
• panic in fib6_rule_suppress+0x22 with custom xdp prog involved in (BZ#2167606)

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 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64

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

CVEs

• CVE-2022-3564
• CVE-2022-4269
• CVE-2022-4378

References

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