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High ALSA-2023:0334 6 CVEs

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Published Jan 23, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)
* kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)
* kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)
* kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)
* kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)
* kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)

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):

* Intel 9.2: Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2127884)
* vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128514)
* nvme-tcp automatic reconnect fails intermittently during EMC powerstore NDU operation (BZ#2131359)
* ice: Driver Update to 5.19 (BZ#2132070)
* WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134588)
* drm: duplicated call of drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier() in drm_connector_register() (BZ#2134619)
* updating the appid field through sysfs is returning an -EINVAL error (BZ#2136914)
* DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139213)
* No signal showed in the VGA monitor when installing AlmaLinux9 in the legacy bios mode (BZ#2140153)
* Practically limit "Dummy wait" workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142168)
* ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143976)
* fatal error: error in backend: Branch target out of insn range (BZ#2144902)
* AMdCLIENT: The kernel command line parameter "nomodeset" not working properly (BZ#2145217)
* Azure: PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150910)
* Azure z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2151605)
* DELL 9.0 RT - On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress (BZ#2154407)

Fixed packages 27

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 bpftool 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-core 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-core 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-devel 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-doc 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-modules 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-core 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-devel 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 perf 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 python3-perf 5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2959
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2964
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30594
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3077
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4139
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43945
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2067482
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2085300
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2103681
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2123309
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2141752
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2147572
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-0334.html