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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_1303.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:1303-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1303
Issue date:         2024-03-13
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2022-0480
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Summary: 

An update for kernel-rt 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (CVE-2022-0480)

Bug Fix(es):

* kernel-rt: kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (JIRA:RHEL-8998)

* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.2.z7 Batch (JIRA:RHEL-26863)


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