RHSA-2024:0850HighCVSS 7.0

Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

Published
February 15, 2024
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-0646 →

📋 Description

CVE-2024-0646 — kernel: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination

🎯 Affected products29

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-0:1-6.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-0:1-6.el9_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-0:1-6.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-debuginfo-0:1-6.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-debuginfo-0:1-6.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-debugsource-0:1-6.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_25_1-debugsource-0:1-6.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-0:1-3.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-0:1-3.el9_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-0:1-3.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-debuginfo-0:1-3.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-debuginfo-0:1-3.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-debugsource-0:1-3.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_30_1-debugsource-0:1-3.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-0:1-2.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-0:1-2.el9_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-0:1-2.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-debuginfo-0:1-2.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-debuginfo-0:1-2.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-debugsource-0:1-2.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_40_1-debugsource-0:1-2.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-0:1-1.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-0:1-1.el9_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-0:1-1.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-debuginfo-0:1-1.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-debuginfo-0:1-1.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-debugsource-0:1-1.el9_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)
  • kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_48_1-debugsource-0:1-1.el9_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2)

✅ 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 Workaround: To mitigate this issue, prevent module tls from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.

🔗 References (4)