Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

Fixed packages 12

Vulnerabilities 7

• Critical 10.0
  CVE-2023-2163 Public exploit

  Incorrect Verifier Branch Pruning Logic Leads To Arbitrary Read/Write In Linux Kernel and Lateral Privilege Escalation

  Incorrect verifier pruning in BPF in Linux Kernel >=5.4 leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe, resulting in arbitrary read/write in kernel memory, lateral privilege escalation, and container escape.

  Linux linux_kernel linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Sep 20, 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 7.8
  CVE-2023-4921

  Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component

  A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. When the plug qdisc is used as a class of the qfq qdisc, sending network packets triggers use-after-free in qfq_dequeue()…

  Linux kernel linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Sep 12, 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
• Unscored —
  CVE-2023-45871

  An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c in the IGB driver in the Linux kernel before 6.5.3…

  linux-raspi2 linux-hwe linux-azure linux-riscv Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Oct 15, 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
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• report
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• report
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• report
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• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245514
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0593.json
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2163
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2163
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2163
• article
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71b547f561247897a0a14f3082730156c0533fed
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3812
• advisory
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• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3812
• article
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• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4622
• advisory
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• 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
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• 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-2023-4921
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4921
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4921
• article
  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8fc134fee27f2263988ae38920bc03da416b03d8
• 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
• report
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• advisory
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• advisory
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• article
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