Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-4577-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support. Issues addressed include a privilege escalation vulnerability.
7db6f1dd8b4a87e3ecd4cac330b5f4908d0d818f128d72915d119e096d72a24f
The following advisory data is extracted from:
https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_4577.json
Red Hat officially shut down their mailing list notifications October 10, 2023. Due to this, Packet Storm has recreated the below data as a reference point to raise awareness. It must be noted that due to an inability to easily track revision updates without crawling Red Hat's archive, these advisories are single notifications and we strongly suggest that you visit the Red Hat provided links to ensure you have the latest information available if the subject matter listed pertains to your environment.
- Packet Storm Staff
====================================================================
Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:4577-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4577
Issue date: 2024-07-16
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-6546
====================================================================
Summary:
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.
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: GSM multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-6546)
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-2023-6546
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255498