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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1304-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1304-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a memory exhaustion vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1304-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1304
Issue date: 2024-03-13
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2022-0480
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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: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (CVE-2022-0480)
Bug Fix(es):
[RHEL9] Add various *.peak control files to cgroup v2 (JIRA:RHEL-22850)
RHEL9 Guest on Google Cloud panics on reading pvpanic device capabilities (JIRA:RHEL-23858)
raid5: read data is wrong when recovery happens (JIRA:RHEL-23882)
md/raid5: release batch_last before waiting for another stripe_head (JIRA:RHEL-24512)
[regression][ext4][xfstests generic/094] Error reading from file with invalid argument (JIRA:RHEL-25436)
bpf: Fix elem_size not being set for inner maps (JIRA:RHEL-25764)
Backport “crypto: rsa - allow only odd e and restrict value in FIPS mode” (JIRA:RHEL-26078)
kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (JIRA:RHEL-8911)
[HPEMC RHEL 9.3 BUG] tools/power/x86 intel-speed-select crashes on systems with more than 8 sockets (JIRA:RHEL-17907)
IPoIB: fix PKEY creation (JIRA:RHEL-22221)
Memory corruption when using dm-crypt or dm-verity on RHEL-9 (JIRA:RHEL-26095)
backport smartpqi: fix disable_managed_interrupts (JIRA:RHEL-26143)
ffdhe* algortihms introduced in 0a2e5b909023 as .fips_allowed=1 lack pairwise consistency tests (JIRA:RHEL-27007)
Enhancement(s):
- s390/qeth: Fix vipa deletion (JIRA:RHEL-25813)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2022-0480
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049700
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