Important: kpatch-patch security update

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 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

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)
• kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)
• kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)
• kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)
• kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow (CVE-2023-42753)

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2224048 - CVE-2023-3812 kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags
• BZ - 2225201 - CVE-2023-3609 kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails
• BZ - 2225511 - CVE-2023-4128 CVE-2023-4206 CVE-2023-4207 CVE-2023-4208 kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route
• BZ - 2239843 - CVE-2023-42753 kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow
• BZ - 2241924 - CVE-2023-5178 kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe

CVEs

• CVE-2023-3609
• CVE-2023-3812
• CVE-2023-4128
• CVE-2023-4206
• CVE-2023-4207
• CVE-2023-4208
• CVE-2023-5178
• CVE-2023-42753

References

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