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Medium RLSA-2022:6437 3 CVEs

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Published Sep 13, 2022 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

* Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) (CVE-2022-21123)

* Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) (CVE-2022-21125)

* Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW) (CVE-2022-21166)

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):

* The latest Rocky Linux 8.6.z3 kernel changes need to be merged into the RT source tree to keep source parity between the two kernels. (BZ#2111112)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 kernel-rt 0:4.18.0-372.26.1.rt7.183.el8_6

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090237
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090240
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090241