Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerabilit...

kernel: scsi: libiscsi_tcp: Bound SCSI Response data segment to the connection buffer

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's libiscsitcp component. A remote attacker, acting as a malicious iSCSI target, could send a specially crafted iSCSI SCSI Command Response ISCSIOPSCSICMDRSP with an oversized data segment. This could lead to a buffer overflow in a fixed-size buffer, potentiall...

kernel: xfrm: hold dev ref until after transport_finish NF_HOOK

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's xfrm IP eXtensible FRamework subsystem. This vulnerability involves a race condition where a network device's reference is released too early during packet processing after asynchronous cryptography. This premature release can lead to the system attempting t...

kernel: udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Universal Disk Format UDF filesystem. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into mounting a specially crafted UDF image containing repeated partition descriptors. This could lead to a heap out-of-bounds write, potentially...

kernel: xfrm: policy: fix use-after-free on inexact bin in xfrm_policy_bysel_ctx()

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A race condition exists in the xfrm policy handling, specifically within the xfrmpolicybyselctx function. This flaw allows for a use-after-free vulnerability, where memory is accessed after it has been released. This can lead to system instability or a denial...

kernel: xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's xfrm input component. The transport-mode reinjection process, which handles network packet re-injection, stores a network namespace pointer that must remain valid until a deferred callback completes. However, a missing reference count for the network namespa...

kernel: netfilter: synproxy: refresh tcphdr after skb_ensure_writable

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter synproxy module. When handling TCP timestamp options, a stale pointer can be used after memory reallocation. This can result in memory corruption, where data is written to a freed memory area, or lead to packets being sent with an incorrect checksu...

kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix a use-after-free problem in rxe_mmap

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's RDMA/rxe component. A race condition in the rxemmap function, which manages memory for Remote Direct Memory Access RDMA operations, can lead to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could exploit this timing issue to cause a system crash, resultin...

kernel: RDMA/rxe: Validate pad and ICRC before payload_size() in rxe_rcv

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's RDMA/rxe component. The rxercv function does not adequately validate the BTH pad and ICRC fields of incoming packets before calculating the payload size. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted short packet or a packet with a forg...

kernel: dm cache policy smq: fix missing locks in invalidating cache blocks

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's device-mapper dm cache policy, specifically within the smq module. In passthrough mode, the invalidatemapping operation lacks proper locking, allowing for concurrent access. This can lead to data races, resulting in data corruption or use-after-free issues,...

kernel: nvmet: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds heap read in Discovery Get Log Page

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's nvmet subsystem. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in the Discovery Get Log Page function. By sending a specially crafted request with a manipulated offset, an attacker could read sensitive kernel memor...

kernel: RDMA/rxe: Fix responder UAF on IB_QP_MAX_DEST_RD_ATOMIC modify_qp

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Remote Direct Memory Access RDMA subsystem, specifically within the rxe component. A local, unprivileged user could exploit a race condition during a queue pair modification operation. This could lead to a use-after-free vulnerability, allowing the attacker ...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. 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...

kernel: zram: fix use-after-free in zram_bvec_write_partial()

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, specifically within the zram module. This vulnerability is a use-after-free error, where the system attempts to use a piece of memory after it has been freed. This occurs when the zrambvecwritepartial function allows an asynchronous read to write into a page...

kernel: ip6_gre: Use cached t->net in ip6erspan_changelink()

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ip6gre module. An unprivileged user could exploit this vulnerability by migrating a network device, causing the ip6erspanchangelink function to incorrectly handle network namespace references. This error leads to a use-after-free condition when the original...

kernel: ice: fix double-free of tx_buf skb

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ice network driver. An error in the driver's handling of network packet transmission, specifically when icetso or icetxcsum functions fail, can lead to a double-free of a network buffer skb. This occurs because a transmit buffer txbuf may still point to an...

kernel: ALSA: 6fire: fix use-after-free on disconnect

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ALSA 6fire USB audio device driver. During the disconnection process of a 6fire USB audio device, a use-after-free vulnerability occurs. This happens when the system attempts to write to memory that has already been deallocated, which can lead to memory...

kernel: net: qrtr: restrict socket creation to the initial network namespace

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's QRTR Qualcomm IPC Router networking component. An unprivileged local attacker can create a QRTR socket in a separate network namespace. Due to improper handling of global state variables, this allows the attacker to send datagrams and control-plane messages ...

kernel: sctp: purge outqueue on stale COOKIE-ECHO handling

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation. This vulnerability, a use-after-free, occurs when the system processes a Stale Cookie ERROR during the setup or reconfiguration of an SCTP association. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending...

kernel: netfilter: conntrack: remove sprintf usage

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter conntrack module. This vulnerability arises from the use of sprintf and insufficient buffer sizing in the manglecontentlen function, which can lead to a stack-out-of-bounds write. An attacker could potentially exploit this memory corruption issue t...