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High ALSA-2022:6610 2 CVEs

Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Sep 20, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: heap overflow in nft_set_elem_init() (CVE-2022-34918)
* kernel: vulnerability of buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() (CVE-2022-2078)

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):

* RDMA/mlx5: Fix number of allocated XLT entries (BZ#2092270)
* mlx5, Setup hanged when run test-route-nexthop-object.sh (BZ#2092535)
* many call traces from unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x199 in amazon i4.32xlarge instance (BZ#2099417)
* X86/platform/UV: Kernel Support Fixes for UV5 platform (BZ#2107732)
* block layer: fixes for md sync slow and softlockup at blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests [9.0.0.z] (BZ#2111395)
* Fixes for NVMe/TCP dereferences an invalid, non-canonical pointer, kernel panic (BZ#2117755)
* Adding missing nvme fix to AlmaLinux-9.1 (BZ#2117756)
* nvme/tcp mistakenly uses blk_mq_tag_to_rq(nvme_tcp_tagset(queue) (BZ#2118698)
* Important ice bug fixes (BZ#2119290)
* Power 9/ppc64le Incorrect Socket(s) & "Core(s) per socket" reported by lscpu command. (BZ#2121719)

Enhancement(s):

* lscpu does not show all of the support AMX flags (amx_int8, amx_bf16) (BZ#2108203)
* ice: Driver Update (BZ#2108204)
* iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2119477)
* i40e: Driver Update (BZ#2119479)

Fixed packages 27

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 bpftool 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-core 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-core 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-devel 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-doc 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-modules 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-core 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-devel 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 perf 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0
AlmaLinux · 9 python3-perf 5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2078
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-34918
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2096178
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2104423
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-6610.html