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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kpatch-patch security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:0554-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0554
Issue date:         2024-01-30
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-2163
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Summary: 

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended 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:

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier pruning leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe (CVE-2023-2163)

* kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)

* kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)

* kernel: use after free in unix_stream_sendpage (CVE-2023-4622)

* kernel: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF (CVE-2023-4623)

* kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class function (CVE-2023-31436)

* kernel: IGB driver inadequate buffer size for frames larger than MTU (CVE-2023-45871)

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-2023-2163

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192671
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224048
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225191
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237757
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237760
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240249
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241924
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244723