Important: kernel security and bug fix 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: net/ulp: use-after-free in listening ULP sockets (CVE-2023-0461)
• kernel: udmabuf: improper validation of array index leading to local privilege escalation (CVE-2023-2008)
• kernel: use-after-free in Netfilter nf_tables when processing batch requests can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-32233)

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):

• Intel QAT Update - (kernel changes) (BZ#2176848)
• Significant performance drop for getrandom system call when FIPS is enabled (compared to RHEL 8) (BZ#2183477)
• Azure RHEL9 Backport upstream commit 93827a0a36396f2fd6368a54a020f420c8916e9b [KVM: VMX: Fix crash due to uninitialized current_vmcs] (BZ#2186824)
• kernel[-rt]: task deadline_test:1778 blocked for more than 622 seconds (BZ#2188657)

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 - 2176192 - CVE-2023-0461 kernel: net/ulp: use-after-free in listening ULP sockets
• BZ - 2186862 - CVE-2023-2008 kernel: udmabuf: improper validation of array index leading to local privilege escalation
• BZ - 2196105 - CVE-2023-32233 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nf_tables when processing batch requests can lead to privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2023-0461
• CVE-2023-2008
• CVE-2023-32233

References

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