The following data is constructed from data provided by Red Hat's json file at:

https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2023/rhsa-2023_5604.json

Red 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. Going forward, 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 Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:5604-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5604
Issue date:         2023-10-10
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-1206
====================================================================

Summary: 

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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

Security Fix(es):

* Kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128)

* kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free in nft_chain_lookup_byid() (CVE-2023-31248)

* kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)

* kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt() (CVE-2023-35788)

* kernel: hash collisions in the IPv6 connection lookup table (CVE-2023-1206)

* kernel: Spectre v2 SMT mitigations problem (CVE-2023-1998)

* kernel: fbcon: shift-out-of-bounds in fbcon_set_font() (CVE-2023-3161)

* kernel: denial of service problem in net/unix/diag.c (CVE-2023-28327)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* Rhel9.2 - drmgr command  is failing [hvcs/PowerVS] (BZ#2213790)

* Wrong hwlat CPU affinity when started from a container. (BZ#2221158)

* cifs: check the lease context if we actually got a lease (BZ#2221160)

* [Hyper-V][RHEL 9]incomplete fc_transport implementation in storvsc causes null dereference in fc_timed_out() (BZ#2230748)

* RHEL-9: WARNING: bad unlock balance detected! (BZ#2232214)

* core: backports from upstream (BZ#2238028)


Solution:



For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

CVEs:

CVE-2023-1206

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important