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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2627-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2627-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_2627.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:2627-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2627
Issue date: 2024-05-01
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-25742
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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):
- CVE-2024-25743 hw: amd: Instruction raise #VC exception at exit (AMD-SN-3008,CVE-2024-25742,CVE-2024-25743)
Bug Fix(es):
CVE-2024-25743 kernel: hw: amd: Instruction raise #VC exception at exit (JIRA:RHEL-30028)
Seeing high latency execution of kernel functions associated with cgroup_rstat_updated() (JIRA:RHEL-30186)
RHEL9 NFS file corruption handling congestion (JIRA:RHEL-31223)
Add tracepoints for sources of IPIs (JIRA:RHEL-27097)
In RHEL9/cgroupv2, vhost task is not pinned to pCPU defined by emulatorpin (JIRA:RHEL-32635)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2024-25742
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270836
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