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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: kernel security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:6267-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6267
Issue date:         2024-09-04
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2024-26946
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Summary: 

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.




Description:

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: kprobes/x86: Use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read from unsafe address (CVE-2024-26946)

* kernel: netfilter: bridge: replace physindev with physinif in nf_bridge_info (CVE-2024-35839)

* kernel: bpf, sockmap: Prevent lock inversion deadlock in map delete elem (CVE-2024-35895)

* kernel: x86/coco: Require seeding RNG with RDRAND on CoCo systems (CVE-2024-35875)

* kernel: gfs2: Fix potential glock use-after-free on unmount (CVE-2024-38570)

* kernel: bnxt_re: avoid shift undefined behavior in bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq (CVE-2024-38540)

* kernel: ionic: fix use after netif_napi_del() (CVE-2024-39502)

* kernel: mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio (CVE-2024-40914)

* kernel: dmaengine: idxd: Fix possible Use-After-Free in irq_process_work_list (CVE-2024-40956)

* kernel: scsi: qedi: Fix crash while reading debugfs attribute (CVE-2024-40978)

* kernel: tipc: force a dst refcount before doing decryption (CVE-2024-40983)

* kernel: ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets (CVE-2024-41044)

* kernel: Revert "mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again" (CVE-2024-42102)

* kernel: mm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic (CVE-2024-42131)

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.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2024-26946

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278206
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281677
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281727
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293423
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293459
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297474
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297498
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297540
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297562
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297567
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300414
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2301465
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2301496