RHSA-2024:3528HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
May 31, 2024
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

📋 Description

CVE-2023-2166 — kernel: NULL pointer dereference in can_rcv_filter CVE-2023-2176 — kernel: Slab-out-of-bound read in compare_netdev_and_ip CVE-2023-52578 — kernel: net: bridge: data races indata-races in br_handle_frame_finish() CVE-2024-1086 — kernel: nf_tables: use-after-free vulnerability in the nft_verdict_init() function

🎯 Affected products26

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-devel-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-doc-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-modules-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-tools-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-tools-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-tools-libs-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • perf-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • perf-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • python3-perf-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • python3-perf-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.135.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)

✅ 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 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: 1. This flaw can be mitigated by preventing the affected netfilter (nf_tables) kernel module from being loaded. For instructions on how to blacklist a kernel module, please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278. 2. If the module cannot be disabled, on non-containerized deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the mitigation is to disable user namespaces: ``` # echo "user.max_user_namespaces=0" > /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf # sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf ``` On containerized deployments, such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, do not use the second mitigation (disabling user namespaces) as the functionality is needed to be enabled. The first mitigation (blacklisting nf_tables) is still viable for containerized deployments, providing the environment is not using netfilter.

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