Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Important

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's hwmon subsystem, specifically in the mlxreg-fan driver. The issue arises when the driver’s sysfs interface for controlling fan speed does not properly handle cases where the requested minimum fan speed exceeds the maximum allowable value. When the value provided is out of bounds, it results in a non-zero return code that prevents updates to thermal statistics, which can lead to a slab-out-of-bounds error, potentially causing system instability or crashes due to improper access to memory.

CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's SMC implementation in the smc_vlan_by_tcpsk() function. A potential NULL pointer dereference occurred when handling lower network devices, leading to system crashes and resulting in denial of service.

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/fixmap: Fix VM debug warning on unmap Unmapping a fixmap entry is done by calling __set_fixmap() with FIXMAP_PAGE_CLEAR as flags. Today, powerpc __set_fixmap() calls map_kernel_page(). map_kernel_page() is not happy when called a second time for the same page. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:194 set_pte_at+0xc/0x1e8 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-s3k-dev-01993-g350ff07feb7d-dirty #682 NIP: c0017cd4 LR: c00187f0 CTR: 00000010 REGS: e1011d50 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.16.0-rc3-s3k-dev-01993-g350ff07feb7d-dirty) MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 42000208 XER: 00000000 GPR00: c0165fec e1011e10 c14c0000 c0ee2550 ff800000 c0f3d000 00000000 c001686c GPR08: 00001000 b00045a9 00000001 c0f58460 c0f50000 00000000 c0007e10 00000000 GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 GPR24: 00000000 00000000 c0ee2550 00000000 c0f57000 00000ff8 00000000 ff800000 NIP [c0017cd4] set_pte_at+0xc/0x1e8 LR [c00187f0] map_kernel_page+0x9c/0x100 Call Trace: [e1011e10] [c0736c68] vsnprintf+0x358/0x6c8 (unreliable) [e1011e30] [c0165fec] __set_fixmap+0x30/0x44 [e1011e40] [c0c13bdc] early_iounmap+0x11c/0x170 [e1011e70] [c0c06cb0] ioremap_legacy_serial_console+0x88/0xc0 [e1011e90] [c0c03634] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x178 [e1011ef0] [c0c0385c] kernel_init_freeable+0xb4/0x250 [e1011f20] [c0007e34] kernel_init+0x24/0x140 [e1011f30] [c0016268] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Instruction dump: 7fe3fb78 48019689 80010014 7c630034 83e1000c 5463d97e 7c0803a6 38210010 4e800020 81250000 712a0001 41820008 <0fe00000> 9421ffe0 93e1001c 48000030 Implement unmap_kernel_page() which clears an existing pte.

CWE-99 - Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in which a system crash can occur if there are certain errors establishing RPC-over-RDMA connections.

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference