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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: kernel security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:0930-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0930
Issue date: 2024-02-21
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-33655
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Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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:

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)

* kernel: malicious data for FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl may cause OOB write memory (CVE-2021-33655)

* kernel: KVM: nVMX: missing IBPB when exiting from nested guest can lead to Spectre v2 attacks (CVE-2022-2196)

* kernel: media: em28xx: initialize refcount before kref_get (CVE-2022-3239)

* kernel: use-after-free after failed devlink reload in devlink_param_get (CVE-2022-3625)

* kernel: net/packet: slab-out-of-bounds access in packet_recvmsg() (CVE-2022-20368)

* hw: cpu: arm64: Spectre-BHB (CVE-2022-23960)

* kernel: use-after-free due to improper update of reference count in net/sched/cls_u32.c (CVE-2022-29581)

* kernel: vmwgfx: integer overflow in vmwgfx_execbuf.c (CVE-2022-36402)

* kernel: vmwgfx: NULL pointer dereference in vmw_cmd_dx_define_query (CVE-2022-38096)

* kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_cmd_res_check (CVE-2022-38457)

* kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_execbuf_tie_context (CVE-2022-40133)

* kernel: sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope (CVE-2023-1074)

* kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event's read_size (CVE-2023-6931)

* kernel: KVM: nVMX: missing consistency checks for CR0 and CR4 (CVE-2023-30456)

* kernel: blocking operation in dvb_frontend_get_event and wait_event_interruptible (CVE-2023-31084)

* kernel: use-after-free in amdgpu_cs_wait_all_fences in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c (CVE-2023-51042)

* kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function (CVE-2024-1086)

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-2021-33655

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2062284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088021
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108691
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123695
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2127985
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133451
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133452
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133453
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133455
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144720
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160023
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173430
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188468
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213139
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2252731
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255498
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259866
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262126