Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt() (CVE-2023-35788)
• kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem (CVE-2023-2124)

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):

• Windows Server 2019 guest randomly pauses with "KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021", RHEL 8.8GA (BZ#2211657)
• rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring, RHEL 8.9 (BZ#2216772)

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 Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2187439 - CVE-2023-2124 kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem
• BZ - 2215768 - CVE-2023-35788 kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt()
• BZ - 2218672 - CVE-2023-3090 kernel: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb

CVEs

• CVE-2023-2124
• CVE-2023-3090
• CVE-2023-35788

References

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