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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:7077-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7077
Issue date:         2023-11-14
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2021-43975
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Summary: 

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev (CVE-2022-4744)

* kernel: net/sched: multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-3609, CVE-2023-3611, CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class function (CVE-2023-31436)

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait (CVE-2021-43975)

* kernel: Rate limit overflow messages in r8152 in intr_callback (CVE-2022-3594)

* kernel: use after free flaw in l2cap_conn_del (CVE-2022-3640)

* kernel: double free in usb_8dev_start_xmit (CVE-2022-28388)

* kernel: vmwgfx: multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-38457, CVE-2022-40133, CVE-2023-33951, CVE-2023-33952)

* hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability (CVE-2022-40982)

* kernel: Information leak in l2cap_parse_conf_req (CVE-2022-42895)

* kernel: KVM: multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-45869, CVE-2023-4155, CVE-2023-30456)

* kernel: memory leak in ttusb_dec_exit_dvb (CVE-2022-45887)

* kernel: speculative pointer dereference in do_prlimit (CVE-2023-0458)

* kernel: use-after-free due to race condition in qdisc_graft (CVE-2023-0590)

* kernel: x86/mm: Randomize per-cpu entry area (CVE-2023-0597)

* kernel: HID: check empty report_list in hid_validate_values (CVE-2023-1073)

* kernel: sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope (CVE-2023-1074)

* kernel: hid: Use After Free in asus_remove (CVE-2023-1079)

* kernel: use-after-free in drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c (CVE-2023-1118)

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

* kernel: ovl: fix use after free in struct ovl_aio_req (CVE-2023-1252)

* kernel: denial of service in tipc_conn_close (CVE-2023-1382)

* kernel: Use after free bug in btsdio_remove due to race condition (CVE-2023-1989)

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

* kernel: ext4: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry (CVE-2023-2513)

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

* kernel: out-of-bounds access in relay_file_read (CVE-2023-3268)

* kernel: xfrm: NULL pointer dereference in xfrm_update_ae_params (CVE-2023-3772)

* kernel: smsusb: use-after-free caused by do_submit_urb (CVE-2023-4132)

* kernel: Race between task migrating pages and another task calling exit_mmap (CVE-2023-4732)

* Kernel: denial of service in atm_tc_enqueue due to type confusion (CVE-2023-23455)

* kernel: mpls: double free on sysctl allocation failure (CVE-2023-26545)

* kernel: Denial of service issue in az6027 driver (CVE-2023-28328)

* kernel: lib/seq_buf.c has a seq_buf_putmem_hex buffer overflow (CVE-2023-28772)

* kernel: blocking operation in dvb_frontend_get_event and wait_event_interruptible (CVE-2023-31084)

* kernel: net: qcom/emac: race condition leading to use-after-free in emac_remove (CVE-2023-33203)

* kernel: saa7134: race condition leading to use-after-free in saa7134_finidev (CVE-2023-35823)

* kernel: dm1105: race condition leading to use-after-free in dm1105_remove.c (CVE-2023-35824)

* kernel: r592: race condition leading to use-after-free in r592_remove (CVE-2023-35825)

* kernel: net/tls: tls_is_tx_ready() checked list_entry (CVE-2023-1075)

* kernel: use-after-free bug in remove function xgene_hwmon_remove (CVE-2023-1855)

* kernel: Use after free bug in r592_remove (CVE-2023-3141)

* kernel: gfs2: NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_evict_inode (CVE-2023-3212)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.


Solution:

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



CVEs:

CVE-2021-43975

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.9_release_notes/index
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7027704
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975026
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024989
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037005
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073091
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112147
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133453
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2147356
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149024
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