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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2023/rhsa-2023_7423.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kernel security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2023:7423-01
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7423
Issue date:         2023-11-21
Revision:           01
CVE Names:          CVE-2022-40982
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Summary: 

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)

* kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function (CVE-2023-3776)

* kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)

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

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/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2022-40982

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7027704
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223949
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225097
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225191
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225511