RHSA-2023:0334: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

First published: Mon Jan 23 2023(Updated: )

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)</li> <li> kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)</li> <li> kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)</li> <li> kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)</li> <li> kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)</li> <li> kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)</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> Intel 9.2: Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2127884)</li> <li> vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128514)</li> <li> nvme-tcp automatic reconnect fails intermittently during EMC powerstore NDU operation (BZ#2131359)</li> <li> ice: Driver Update to 5.19 (BZ#2132070)</li> <li> WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134588)</li> <li> drm: duplicated call of drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier() in drm_connector_register() (BZ#2134619)</li> <li> updating the appid field through sysfs is returning an -EINVAL error (BZ#2136914)</li> <li> DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139213)</li> <li> No signal showed in the VGA monitor when installing RHEL9 in the legacy bios mode (BZ#2140153)</li> <li> Practically limit "Dummy wait" workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142168)</li> <li> ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143976)</li> <li> fatal error: error in backend: Branch target out of insn range (BZ#2144902)</li> <li> AMdCLIENT: The kernel command line parameter "nomodeset" not working properly (BZ#2145217)</li> <li> Azure: PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150910)</li> <li> Azure z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2151605)</li> <li> DELL 9.0 RT - On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress (BZ#2154407)</li>

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