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: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb (CVE-2023-3090)
• kernel: kernel info leak issue in pfkey_register (CVE-2022-1353)
• kernel: unmap_mapping_range() race with munmap() on VM_PFNMAP mappings leads to stale TLB entry (CVE-2022-39188)
• kernel: speculative pointer dereference in do_prlimit() in kernel/sys.c (CVE-2023-0458)
• kernel: tls: race condition in do_tls_getsockopt may lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2023-28466)

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):

• IOMMU/DMA updates for 9.1 (BZ#2192629)
• rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring (BZ#2216570)
• Hyper-V RHEL-9: Fix VM crash/hang Issues due to fast VF add/remove events (BZ#2217067)
• KVM: x86: fix sending PV IPI (BZ#2225337)
• libceph: harden msgr2.1 frame segment length checks (BZ#2227071)

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 - 2066819 - CVE-2022-1353 kernel: kernel info leak issue in pfkey_register
• BZ - 2130141 - CVE-2022-39188 kernel: unmap_mapping_range() race with munmap() on VM_PFNMAP mappings leads to stale TLB entry
• BZ - 2179000 - CVE-2023-28466 kernel: tls: race condition in do_tls_getsockopt may lead to use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference
• BZ - 2193219 - CVE-2023-0458 kernel: speculative pointer dereference in do_prlimit() in kernel/sys.c
• BZ - 2218672 - CVE-2023-3090 kernel: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1353
• CVE-2022-39188
• CVE-2023-0458
• CVE-2023-3090
• CVE-2023-28466

References

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