[RHSA-2023:3350-01] Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Sat Jun 3 09:10:10 UTC 2023

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8) - x86_64

3. Description:

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables
fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nf_tables when processing batch
requests can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2023-32233)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

* smpboot: Scheduler frequency invariance went wobbly, disabling!
(BZ#2188316)

* Crash: kernel BUG at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1338! (BZ#2188722)

* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.8.z0 source tree.
(BZ#2196667)

4. Solution:

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.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2196105 - CVE-2023-32233 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nf_tables when processing batch requests can lead to privilege escalation

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 8):

Source:
kernel-rt-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.src.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-rt-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 8):

Source:
kernel-rt-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.src.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-rt-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-477.13.1.rt7.276.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

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details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32233
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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