RHSA-2024:6992HighCVSS 7.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
September 24, 2024
Last Modified
September 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (8)

CVE-2024-41071 · pendingCVE-2024-41090 →CVE-2024-41091 →CVE-2022-48799 →CVE-2022-48828 →CVE-2022-48829 →CVE-2022-50495 · pendingCVE-2024-26908 · pending

📋 Description

CVE-2022-48799 — kernel: perf: Fix list corruption in perf_cgroup_switch() CVE-2022-48828 — kernel: NFSD: Fix ia_size underflow CVE-2022-48829 — kernel: NFSD: Fix NFSv3 SETATTR/CREATE's handling of large file sizes CVE-2022-50495 — kernel: x86/xen: Fix memory leak in xen_smp_intr_init{_pv}() CVE-2024-26908 — kernel: x86/xen: Add some null pointer checking to smp.c CVE-2024-41071 — kernel: wifi: mac80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing CVE-2024-41090 — kernel: virtio-net: tap: mlx5_core short frame denial of service CVE-2024-41091 — kernel: virtio-net: tun: mlx5_core short frame denial of service

🎯 Affected products26

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-core-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-modules-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-devel-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-doc-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-modules-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-modules-extra-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-tools-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-tools-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • kernel-tools-libs-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • perf-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • perf-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • python3-perf-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v. 8.2)
  • python3-perf-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-193.141.1.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 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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