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High RLSA-2023:4517 6 CVEs

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Published Oct 6, 2023 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free in l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-42896)

* kernel: tcindex: use-after-free vulnerability in traffic control index filter allows privilege escalation (CVE-2023-1281)

* kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (CVE-2023-1829)

* kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the perf_group_detach function of the Linux Kernel Performance Events (CVE-2023-2235)

* kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem (CVE-2023-2124)

* kernel: i2c: out-of-bounds write in xgene_slimpro_i2c_xfer() (CVE-2023-2194)

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):

* simultaneous writes to a page on xfs can result in zero-byte data (BZ#2184101)

* Rocky Linux 8.4 - kernel: fix __clear_user() inline assembly constraints (BZ#2192602)

* LPAR is crashed by Phyp when doing DLPAR CPU operations (BZ#2193375)

* ice: ptp4l cpu usage spikes (BZ#2203285)

* Kernel - Significant performance drop for getrandom system call when FIPS is enabled (compared to Rocky Linux 8.x for all x < 6.z) (BZ#2208127)

* macvlan: backports from upstream (BZ#2209686)

* Intel 8.9 BUG VROC: Pull VMD secondary bus reset patch (BZ#2211198)

* Incorrect target abort handling causes iscsi deadlock (BZ#2211494)

* swap deadlock when attempt to charge a page to a cgroup stalls waiting on I/O plugged on another task in swap code (BZ#2211513)

* BUG_ON "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1041!" in __page_set_anon_rmap() when vma->anon_vma==NULL (BZ#2211658)

* Rocky Linux 8.9: IPMI updates and bug fixes (BZ#2211667)

* Rocky Linux 8.6 opening console with mkvterm on novalink terminal fails due to drmgr reporting failure (L3:) (BZ#2212373)

* Rocky Linux 8.8 - P10 DD2.0: Wrong numa_node is assigned to vpmem device (BZ#2212451)

* Rocky Linux 8.8 beta: Occasional stall during initialization of ipmi_msghandler (BZ#2213189)

* ESXi Rocky Linux 8: Haswell generation CPU are impacted with performance due to IBRS (BZ#2213366)

* xen: fix section mismatch error with xen_callback_vector() and alloc_intr_gate() (BZ#2214281)

* jitter: Fix RCT/APT health test during initialization (BZ#2215079)

* aacraid misses interrupts when a CPU is disabled resulting in scsi timeouts and the adapter being unusable until reboot. (BZ#2216498)

* Hyper-V Rocky Linux 8: Fix VM crash/hang Issues due to fast VF add/remove events (BZ#2216543)

* rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring [8.9] (BZ#2216769)

* Regression of 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") (BZ#2220810)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 kernel 0:4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2147364
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181847
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187439
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188396
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188470
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192589