RHSA-2022:6983HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
October 18, 2022
Last Modified
August 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2022-2588 →CVE-2022-21123 →CVE-2022-21125 →CVE-2022-21166 →CVE-2021-45485 →CVE-2021-45486 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-45485 — kernel: information leak in the IPv6 implementation CVE-2021-45486 — kernel: information leak in the IPv4 implementation CVE-2022-2588 — kernel: a use-after-free in cls_route filter implementation may lead to privilege escalation CVE-2022-21123 — hw: cpu: incomplete clean-up of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) CVE-2022-21125 — hw: cpu: incomplete clean-up of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) CVE-2022-21166 — hw: cpu: incomplete clean-up in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW)

🎯 Affected products122

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-305.65.1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.8.4)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation baser or stability.

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