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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kernel live patch module security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:1253-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1253
Issue date:         2024-03-12
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-2163
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Summary: 

An update for kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_64_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_70_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_75_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_80_1, and kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_85_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)

* kernel: net/sched: cls_u32 component reference counter leak if tcf_change_indev() fails (CVE-2023-3609)

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

* kernel: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination (CVE-2024-0646)

* 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-2023-2163

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213260
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225201
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=2253908
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255498