What is RHSA-2024:1840?

RHSA-2024:1840 is a security advisory published by Red Hat Product Security with Medium severity. Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

Which CVE IDs does RHSA-2024:1840 cover?

RHSA-2024:1840 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-33631, CVE-2023-6931. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of RHSA-2024:1840?

RHSA-2024:1840 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.0, published by Red Hat Product Security.

Which products are affected by RHSA-2024:1840?

RHSA-2024:1840 affects 32 products, including: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0); Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0); kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0); kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0); kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0); and others — see the full list on the advisory page.

RHSA-2024:1840MediumCVSS 7.0

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

Vendor

Red Hat Product Security

Published

April 16, 2024

Last Modified

August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2021-33631 →CVE-2023-6931 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-33631 — kernel: ext4: kernel bug in ext4_write_inline_data_end() CVE-2023-6931 — kernel: Out of boundary write in perf_read_group() as result of overflow a perf_event's read_size

🎯 Affected products32

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-core-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-core-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-core-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-core-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-modules-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-modules-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-devel-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-devel-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-kvm-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-modules-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.0)
kernel-rt-modules-0:5.14.0-70.97.1.rt21.169.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.0)
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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 do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability. Workaround: It is not possible to trigger this issue with the default kernel.perf_event_paranoid sysctl value 2. You may check it with: cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

🎯 Affected products32

✅ Remediation

🔗 References (5)