Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1653-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1653-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1653
Issue date: 2024-04-03
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-33631
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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
Moderate. 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: use-after-free in drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c due to race condition (CVE-2023-1118)
* kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (CVE-2021-33631)
* kernel: sched/membarrier: reduce the ability to hammer on sys_membarrier (CVE-2024-26602)
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2021-33631
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174400
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261976
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267695