Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:8613-01 (kernel) [LWN.net]

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es): * kernel: ovl: fix use after free in struct ovl_aio_req (CVE-2023-1252) * hw: cpu: intel: Native Branch History Injection (BHI) (CVE-2024-2201) * kernel: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage (CVE-2023-52489) * kernel: blk-mq: fix IO hang from sbitmap wakeup race (CVE-2024-26671) * kernel: fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats (CVE-2024-26686) * kernel: mptcp: fix data re-injection from stale subflow (CVE-2024-26826) * kernel: mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del (CVE-2024-26961) * kernel: hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field (CVE-2021-47384) * kernel: mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect (CVE-2024-36889) * kernel: ipv6: prevent possible NULL dereference in rt6_probe() (CVE-2024-40960) * kernel: ext4: fix uninitialized ratelimit_state->lock access in __ext4_fill_super() (CVE-2024-40998) * kernel: filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode (CVE-2024-41049) * kernel: mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() (CVE-2024-41055) * kernel: powerpc/eeh: avoid possible crash when edev->pdev changes (CVE-2024-41064) * kernel: nvmet: fix a possible leak when destroy a ctrl during qp establishment (CVE-2024-42152) 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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