RHSA-2024:8616MediumCVSS 5.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
October 30, 2024
Last Modified
September 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2022-48773 →CVE-2024-40998 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-48773 — kernel: xprtrdma: fix pointer derefs in error cases of rpcrdma_ep_create CVE-2024-40998 — kernel: ext4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state->lock access in __ext4_fill_super()

🎯 Affected products149

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • bpftool-debuginfo-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.6)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
  • kernel-core-0:4.18.0-372.127.1.el8_6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.6)
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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.

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