Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service.

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

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):

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.2.z28 source tree (BZ#2228917)

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 Real Time - Telecommunications Update Service 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV - Telecommunications Update Service 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