A kernel security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4.
RHSA-2023:0496-01: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0496-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0496
Issue date: 2023-01-30
CVE Names: CVE-2022-2964 CVE-2022-4139
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1. Summary:
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device.
(CVE-2022-2964)
* kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access
(CVE-2022-4139)
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):
* fix for "CoW after fork() issue" aka "vmsplice child -> parent attack"
aka "GUP after fork bug" (BZ#2137547)
* After upgrading to ocp4.11.1, our dpdk application using vlan strip
offload is not working (BZ#2138207)
* i40e sriov virtual functions not created (BZ#2140103)
* net/ice: VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_VSI_QUEUES command handling failure with
in-tree driver (BZ#2142019)
* HPE: Premature swapping with swappiness=0 while there’s still plenty of
pagecache to be reclaimed. (BZ#2151634)
* The "kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:103!" from BZ 2041529 is back on
rhel-8.5 (BZ#2153232)
* Azure: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network
during provisioning (BZ#2155274)
* Azure: VM Deployment Failures Patch Request (BZ#2155282)
* RHEL 8.8: Backport upstream patches to reduce memory cgroup memory
consumption and OOM problem (BZ#2157924)
* RHEL 8.5: Backport upstream memory cgroup commits up to v5.12
(BZ#2158049)
4. 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.
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2067482 - CVE-2022-2964 kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device.
2147572 - CVE-2022-4139 kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4):
Source:
kernel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
bpftool-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
bpftool-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.4):
aarch64:
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-305.76.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
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7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2964
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4139
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
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