RHSA-2022:4642: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

First published: Wed May 18 2022(Updated: )

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (CVE-2022-0492)</li> 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.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> kernel panic in mlx5_ib driver RHEL/CentOS 7.9 VM (BZ#2046571)</li> <li> [RHEL-7.9] Get Call Trace about "kernel/timer.c:1270 requeue_timers+0x15e/0x170" on specified AMD x86_64 system (BZ#2048502)</li> <li> kernel NULL pointer dereference while calling dma_pool_alloc from the mlx5_core module (BZ#2055457)</li> <li> Rhel 7.9 NFS Clients takes very long time to resume operations in an NFS Server failover scenario (BZ#2066699)</li> <li> perf stat shows unsupported counters for Intel IceLake cpu (BZ#2072317)</li>

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