RHSA-2024:6991HighCVSS 5.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
September 24, 2024
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (12)

CVE-2023-52489 →CVE-2024-40995 →CVE-2024-41071 · pendingCVE-2021-47393 →CVE-2022-48786 →CVE-2022-48816 →CVE-2024-40984 →CVE-2024-41055 →CVE-2021-47559 →CVE-2021-47623 →CVE-2022-48773 →CVE-2022-48799 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-47393 — kernel: hwmon: (mlxreg-fan) Return non-zero value when fan current state is enforced from sysfs CVE-2021-47559 — kernel: net/smc: Fix NULL pointer dereferencing in smc_vlan_by_tcpsk() CVE-2021-47623 — kernel: powerpc/fixmap: Fix VM debug warning on unmap CVE-2022-48773 — kernel: xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create CVE-2022-48786 — kernel: vsock: remove vsock from connected table when connect is interrupted by a signal CVE-2022-48799 — kernel: perf: Fix list corruption in perf_cgroup_switch() CVE-2022-48816 — kernel: SUNRPC: lock against ->sock changing during sysfs read CVE-2023-52489 — kernel: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage CVE-2024-40984 — kernel: ACPICA: Revert "ACPICA: avoid Info: mapping multiple BARs. Your kernel is fine." CVE-2024-40995 — kernel: net/sched: act_api: fix possible infinite loop in tcf_idr_check_alloc() CVE-2024-41055 — kernel: mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() CVE-2024-41071 — kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing

🎯 Affected products136

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-core-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-core-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-core-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-core-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-debug-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-debug-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-debug-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-debug-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.9.0)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:5.14.0-70.117.1.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (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: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible. 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: There are no mitigations for the flaw. Please update your system for fixes.

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