Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0261-03 - An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:0261-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0261
Issue date: 2024-01-16
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-3611
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Summary:
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)
* kernel: net/sched: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the net/sched classifiers: cls_fw, cls_u32 and cls_route (CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)
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.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-3611
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225191
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225511