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High 1 exploited CVE ALSA-2023:1470 3 CVEs

Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Mar 27, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev (CVE-2022-4744)
* ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)
* kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action (CVE-2022-4269)

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):

* AlmaLinux9.0 - zfcp: fix missing auto port scan and thus missing target ports (BZ#2127880)
* Cgroups_v2, when creating new cgroup/container, resets the cpu affinity masks for all usr processes on the system. (BZ#2143766)
* AlmaLinux9.0 - boot: Add secure boot trailer (BZ#2151528)
* kernel-rt-debug: WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected (&n->list_lock->&p->pi_lock->&lock->wait_lock) (BZ#2160614)
* Support cpuset.sched_load_balance by changing default CPUset directory structure (BZ#2161105)
* AlmaLinux9.0 - s390/kexec: fix ipl report address for kdump (BZ#2166903)
* libgpiod doesn't seem to work with Interphase gpiochip (BZ#2166956)
* Azure AlmaLinux9 scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM (BZ#2170227)

Enhancement(s):

* IBM 9.2 FEAT: Upgrade the QETH driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.0 (BZ#2166304)
* Intel 9.2 FEAT SPR CPU: AMX: Improve the init_fpstate setup code (BZ#2168382)

Fixed packages 27

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 bpftool 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-abi-stablelists 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-core 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-cross-headers 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-core 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-modules 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-debug-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-doc 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-modules 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools-libs 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-tools-libs-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-core 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 perf 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 python3-perf 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4269
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4744
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0266
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2150272
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2156322
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2163379
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-1470.html