RHSA-2023:0496: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

First published: Mon Jan 30 2023(Updated: )

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><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> 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> fix for "CoW after fork() issue" aka "vmsplice child -&gt; parent attack" aka "GUP after fork bug" (BZ#2137547)</li> <li> After upgrading to ocp4.11.1, our dpdk application using vlan strip offload is not working (BZ#2138207)</li> <li> i40e sriov virtual functions not created (BZ#2140103)</li> <li> net/ice: VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_VSI_QUEUES command handling failure with in-tree driver (BZ#2142019)</li> <li> HPE: Premature swapping with swappiness=0 while there’s still plenty of pagecache to be reclaimed. (BZ#2151634)</li> <li> The "kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:103!" from BZ 2041529 is back on rhel-8.5 (BZ#2153232)</li> <li> Azure: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2155274)</li> <li> Azure: VM Deployment Failures Patch Request (BZ#2155282)</li> <li> RHEL 8.8: Backport upstream patches to reduce memory cgroup memory consumption and OOM problem (BZ#2157924)</li> <li> RHEL 8.5: Backport upstream memory cgroup commits up to v5.12 (BZ#2158049)</li>

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