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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553 and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1 security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:7429-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7429
Issue date:         2024-10-01
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2024-41071
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Summary: 

An update for kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553 and kpatch-patch-4_18_0-553_16_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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:

This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel.  This patch module is targeted for kernel-4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41090)

* kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service (CVE-2024-41091)

* kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing (CVE-2024-41071)

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-2024-41071

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2299240
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2299336
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300448