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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1607-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1607
Issue date: 2024-04-02
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.

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

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

* kernel: GSM multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-6546,ZDI-CAN-20527)

* kernel: CIFS Filesystem Decryption Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in function receive_encrypted_standard of client (CVE-2024-0565)

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

* kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (CVE-2021-33631)

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

Bug Fix(es):

* OCP 4.12 crashed due to use-after-free in libceph in rhel8 (JIRA:RHEL-21394)

* kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function (JIRA:RHEL-24010)

* Screen floods with random colour suggesting something not initialised (JIRA:RHEL-21055)

* kernel: vmxgfx: NULL pointer dereference in vmw_cmd_dx_define_query (JIRA:RHEL-22766)

* tx-checksumming required for accessing port in OpenShift for RHEL 8.6 (JIRA:RHEL-20822)

* kernel: CIFS Filesystem Decryption Improper Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in function receive_encrypted_standard of client (JIRA:RHEL-22077)

* kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event's read_size (JIRA:RHEL-22930)

* rbd: don't move requests to the running list on errors [8.x] (JIRA:RHEL-24204)

* kernel: use-after-free in amdgpu_cs_wait_all_fences in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_cs.c (JIRA:RHEL-24479)

* ceph: several cap and snap fixes (JIRA:RHEL-20909)

* [RHVH] Migration hangs between RHVH release bellow 4.5.1 and RHVH over or equal 4.5.2 release (JIRA:RHEL-23063)

* unable to access smsc95xx based interface unless you start outgoing traffic. (JIRA:RHEL-25719)

* [RHEL8] ] BUG bio-696 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten (JIRA:RHEL-26101)

* kernel: GSM multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation (JIRA:RHEL-19954)

* backport smartpqi: fix disable_managed_interrupts (JIRA:RHEL-26139)

* kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() (JIRA:RHEL-26331)

* ceph: always check dir caps asynchronously (JIRA:RHEL-27496)

Enhancement(s):

* [IBM 8.10 FEAT] Upgrade the qeth driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.4 (JIRA:RHEL-25811)

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2021-33631

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2133452
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=2258518
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259866
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261976
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262126