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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3530-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3530-03 - An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
The following advisory data is extracted from:https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_3530.jsonRed Hat officially shut down their mailing list notifications October 10, 2023. Due to this, Packet Storm has recreated the below data as a reference point to raise awareness. It must be noted that due to an inability to easily track revision updates without crawling Red Hat's archive, these advisories are single notifications and we strongly suggest that you visit the Red Hat provided links to ensure you have the latest information available if the subject matter listed pertains to your environment.- Packet Storm Staff====================================================================Red Hat Security AdvisorySynopsis: Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix updateAdvisory ID: RHSA-2024:3530-03Product: Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAdvisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3530Issue date: 2024-05-31Revision: 03CVE Names: CVE-2023-52578====================================================================Summary: An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.Security Fix(es):* kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function (CVE-2024-1086)* kernel: net: bridge: data races indata-races in br_handle_frame_finish() (CVE-2023-52578)Bug Fix(es):* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-8.4.z Batch 25 (JIRA:RHEL-36724)* [RHEL-8.4] kernel-rt-debug: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:968 (JIRA:RHEL-8758)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/11258CVEs:CVE-2023-52578References:https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#importanthttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262126https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267758Related news
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