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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: kernel security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:5259-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5259
Issue date:         2024-08-14
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2022-1011
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Summary: 

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle 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: FUSE allows UAF reads of write() buffers, allowing theft of (partial) /etc/shadow hashes (CVE-2022-1011)

* net: fix __dst_negative_advice() race (CVE-2024-36971)

Bug Fix(es):

* kernel.spec: run initramfs generation in %post (not only in %posttrans)
(RHEL-3292)

* tcp: fix zero cwnd in tcp_cwnd_reduction (RHEL-43212)

* epoll: fix use-after-free in eventpoll_release_file (RHEL-39665)

* RHEL 7.9: include  [net] netfilter: ipset: fix ip_set_list allocation failure (RHEL-6204)

* gfs2: The gfs2_logd process to hang or stall which causes a performance degradation on the gfs2 filesystem (RHEL-8427)

* [rhel7] gfs2: quota_change%u corruption (RHEL-37473)

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-2022-1011

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064855
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292331