Important: kpatch-patch security update

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)
• kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function (CVE-2023-3776)
• 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)

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2225097 - CVE-2023-3776 kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function
• BZ - 2225191 - CVE-2023-3611 kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead
• 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

CVEs

• CVE-2023-3611
• CVE-2023-3776
• CVE-2023-4128
• CVE-2023-4206
• CVE-2023-4207
• CVE-2023-4208

References

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