Important: kernel-rt security update

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: use after free in unix_stream_sendpage (CVE-2023-4622)
• kernel: vmwgfx: reference count issue leads to use-after-free in surface handling (CVE-2023-5633)
• kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow (CVE-2023-42753)
• Kernel: UAF during login when accessing the shost ipaddress (CVE-2023-2162)
• hw amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure (CVE-2023-20569)

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 latest RHEL-8.9.z1 Batch (JIRA:RHEL-17347)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2187773 - CVE-2023-2162 Kernel: UAF during login when accessing the shost ipaddress
• BZ - 2207625 - CVE-2023-20569 hw amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure
• BZ - 2237760 - CVE-2023-4622 kernel: use after free in unix_stream_sendpage
• BZ - 2239843 - CVE-2023-42753 kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow
• BZ - 2245663 - CVE-2023-5633 kernel: vmwgfx: reference count issue leads to use-after-free in surface handling

CVEs

• CVE-2023-2162
• CVE-2023-4622
• CVE-2023-5633
• CVE-2023-20569
• CVE-2023-42753

References

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