Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4211-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include double free, memory leak, null pointer, spoofing, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4211-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4211
Issue date: 2024-07-02
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2020-26555
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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 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: Bluetooth BR/EDR PIN Pairing procedure is vulnerable to an impersonation attack (CVE-2020-26555)
* kernel:TCP-spoofed ghost ACKs and leak leak initial sequence number (CVE-2023-52881,RHV-2024-1001)
* kernel: ovl: fix leaked dentry (CVE-2021-46972)
* kernel: platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Fix oops on rmmod dell_smbios (CVE-2021-47073)
* kernel: mm/damon/vaddr-test: memory leak in damon_do_test_apply_three_regions() (CVE-2023-52560)
* kernel: ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K (CVE-2024-26675)
* kernel: mm/swap: fix race when skipping swapcache (CVE-2024-26759)
* kernel: net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth (CVE-2024-26804)
* kernel: RDMA/mlx5: Fix fortify source warning while accessing Eth segment (CVE-2024-26907)
* kernel: x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault() (CVE-2024-26906)
* kernel: powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_event_init() (CVE-2023-52686)
* kernel: powerpc/imc-pmu: Add a null pointer check in update_events_in_group() (CVE-2023-52675)
* kernel: KVM: SVM: improper check in svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception allows direct access to host x2apic msrs (CVE-2023-5090)
* kernel: EDAC/thunderx: Incorrect buffer size in drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c (CVE-2023-52464)
* kernel: ipv6: sr: fix possible use-after-free and null-ptr-deref (CVE-2024-26735)
* kernel: mptcp: fix data re-injection from stale subflow (CVE-2024-26826)
* kernel: net/bnx2x: Prevent access to a freed page in page_pool (CVE-2024-26859)
* kernel: crypto: qat - resolve race condition during AER recovery (CVE-2024-26974)
* kernel: net/mlx5e: fix a potential double-free in fs_any_create_groups (CVE-2023-52667)
* kernel: net/mlx5: Properly link new fs rules into the tree (CVE-2024-35960)
* kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix mlx5e_priv_init() cleanup flow (CVE-2024-35959)
* kernel: net: ena: Fix incorrect descriptor free behavior (CVE-2024-35958)
* kernel: i40e: Do not use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag for workqueue (CVE-2024-36004)
* kernel: mISDN: fix possible use-after-free in HFC_cleanup() (CVE-2021-47356)
* kernel: udf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in udf_symlink function (CVE-2021-47353)
* kernel: net: ti: fix UAF in tlan_remove_one (CVE-2021-47310)
Bug Fix(es):
* Kernel panic - kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:376! (JIRA:RHEL-29783)
* Temporary values in FIPS integrity test should be zeroized [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-35361)
* RHEL8.6 - kernel: s390/cpum_cf: make crypto counters upward compatible (JIRA:RHEL-36048)
* [RHEL8] blktests block/024 failed (JIRA:RHEL-8130)
* RHEL8.9: EEH injections results Error: Power fault on Port 0 and other call traces(Everest/1050/Shiner) (JIRA:RHEL-14195)
* Latency spikes with Matrox G200 graphic cards (JIRA:RHEL-36172)
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-2020-26555
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918601
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248122
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258875
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265517
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265519
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265520
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265800
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