Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3460-03 - An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:3460-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3460
Issue date: 2024-05-29
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-26642
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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: netfilter: nf_tables: mark set as dead when unbinding anonymous set with timeout (CVE-2024-26643)
* kernel: netfilter: nf_tables: disallow anonymous set with timeout flag (CVE-2024-26642)
* kernel: netfilter: nft_ct: sanitize layer 3 and 4 protocol number in custom expectations (CVE-2024-26673)
* kernel: ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref (CVE-2024-26735)
* kernel: net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth (CVE-2024-26804)
* kernel: cifs: fix underflow in parse_server_interfaces() (CVE-2024-26828)
* kernel: fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection() (CVE-2024-26993)
Bug Fix:
* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.2 ad hoc schedule build (JIRA:RHEL-36221)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2024-26642
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270879
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270881
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272816
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273278
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273423
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275600
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278314