RHSA-2022:7444: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Published Nov 8, 2022
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Updated

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.Security Fix(es): off-path attacker may inject data or terminate victim's TCP session (CVE-2020-36516) Race condition in VTRESIZEX ioctl when vccons[i].d is already NULL leading to NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2020-36558) use-after-free vulnerability in function scosocksendmsg() (CVE-2021-3640) Memory leak for large arguments in videousercopy function in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c (CVE-2021-30002) smb2ioctlqueryinfo NULL Pointer Dereference (CVE-2022-0168) NULL pointer dereference in udfexpandfileadinicbdue() during writeback (CVE-2022-0617) swiotlb information leak with DMAFROMDEVICE (CVE-2022-0854) Uninitialized registers on stack in nftdochain can cause kernel pointer leakage to UM (CVE-2022-1016) Race condition in sndpcmhwfree leading to use-after-free (CVE-2022-1048) use-after-free in tcnewtfilter() in net/sched/clsapi.c (CVE-2022-1055) use-after-free and memory errors in ext4 when mounting and operating on a corrupted image (CVE-2022-1184) NULL pointer dereference in x86emulateinsn may lead to DoS (CVE-2022-1852) buffer overflow in nftsetdescconcatparse() (CVE-2022-2078) nftables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2586) openvswitch: integer underflow leads to out-of-bounds write in reservesfasize() (CVE-2022-2639) use-after-free when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled (CVE-2022-2938) net/packet: slab-out-of-bounds access in packetrecvmsg() (CVE-2022-20368) possible to use the debugger to write zero into a location of choice (CVE-2022-21499) Post-barrier Return Stack Buffer Predictions (CVE-2022-26373) Memory leak in drivers/hid/hid-elo.c (CVE-2022-27950) Double free in emsusbstartxmit in drivers/net/can/usb/emsusb.c (CVE-2022-28390) Use after free in SUNRPC subsystem (CVE-2022-28893) use-after-free due to improper update of reference count in net/sched/clsu32.c (CVE-2022-29581) DoS in nfqnlmangle in net/netfilter/nfnetlinkqueue.c (CVE-2022-36946) nfsatomicopen() returns uninitialized data instead of ENOTDIR (CVE-2022-24448) 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.Additional Changes:For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected Software

15 affected componentsFixes available
redhat/kernel-rt<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-core<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug-core<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug-devel<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug-modules<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debuginfo<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-devel<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-modules<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-modules-extra<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-debug-kvm<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
redhat/kernel-rt-kvm<4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8
4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8

Remediation

Event History

Jun 20, 2024
Advisory Published
via Red Hat·01:53 AM
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Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of RHSA-2022:7444?

The severity of RHSA-2022:7444 is considered critical due to vulnerabilities allowing off-path attackers to inject data or terminate TCP sessions.

2

How do I fix RHSA-2022:7444?

To fix RHSA-2022:7444, you need to upgrade to the kernel-rt package version 4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8 or later.

3

What vulnerabilities are addressed by RHSA-2022:7444?

RHSA-2022:7444 addresses CVE-2020-36516 which concerns an off-path attacker being able to inject data or terminate TCP sessions.

4

Which systems are affected by RHSA-2022:7444?

RHSA-2022:7444 affects systems running the kernel-rt packages prior to version 4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8.

5

When was RHSA-2022:7444 released?

RHSA-2022:7444 was released to address critical security vulnerabilities identified in the kernel-rt packages.

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