Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

Fixed packages 6

Vulnerabilities 5

• High 8.8
  CVE-2023-5178 Public exploit

  Kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in nvme

  A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c` in `nvmet_tcp_free_crypto` due to a logical bug in the NVMe/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a malicious user to cause a use-after-free and double-free problem, whic…

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Nov 1, 2023
• High 7.8
  CVE-2023-3812

  Kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags

  An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TUN/TAP device driver functionality in how a user generates a malicious (too big) networking packet when napi frags is enabled. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate …

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Jul 24, 2023
• High 7.8
  CVE-2023-4622 Public exploit

  Use-after-free in Linux kernel's af_unix component

  A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there…

  Linux kernel linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Sep 6, 2023
• High 7.8
  CVE-2023-4623

  Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_hfsc (HFSC qdisc traffic control) component

  A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_hfsc (HFSC qdisc traffic control) component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If a class with a link-sharing curve (i.e. with the HFSC_FSC flag set) has a parent without…

  Linux kernel linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Sep 6, 2023
• High 7.0
  CVE-2023-42753

  Kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow

  An array indexing vulnerability was found in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A missing macro could lead to a miscalculation of the `h->nets` array offset, providing attackers with the primitive to arbitrarily increment/decrement a memory buffer o…

  Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Sep 25, 2023

References

• article
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224048
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237757
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237760
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239843
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241924
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0340.json
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3812
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3812
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3812
• article
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=363a5328f4b0
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4622
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4622
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4622
• article
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-6.1.y&id=790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4623
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4623
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4623
• article
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b3d26c5702c7d6c45456326e56d2ccf3f103e60f
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5178
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5178
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5178
• article
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/20231002105428.226515-1-sagi@grimberg.me/
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42753
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42753
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42753
• article
  https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q3/216