RLSA-2023:4517

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    RLSA-2023:4517

    Published: 6 Oct 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

    Details: 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)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kernel

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/kernel?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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