Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20224642
Revision Date:2022-05-18Version:638
Title:RHSA-2022:4642: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description:The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (CVE-2022-0492)

    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):

  • kernel panic in mlx5_ib driver RHEL/CentOS 7.9 VM (BZ#2046571)

  • [RHEL-7.9] Get Call Trace about "kernel/timer.c:1270 requeue_timers+0x15e/0x170" on specified AMD x86_64 system (BZ#2048502)

  • kernel NULL pointer dereference while calling dma_pool_alloc from the mlx5_core module (BZ#2055457)

  • Rhel 7.9 NFS Clients takes very long time to resume operations in an NFS Server failover scenario (BZ#2066699)

  • perf stat shows unsupported counters for Intel IceLake cpu (BZ#2072317)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2022-0492
    RHSA-2022:4642
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND
  • kernel earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7 is currently running
  • OR kernel earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7 is set to boot up on next boot
  • AND
  • bpftool is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND bpftool is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-abi-whitelists is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-abi-whitelists is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-bootwrapper is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-bootwrapper is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-debug is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-debug is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-debug-devel is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-debug-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-devel is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-doc is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-doc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-kdump is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-kdump is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-kdump-devel is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-kdump-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-tools is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-tools is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-tools-libs is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-tools-libs is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-tools-libs-devel is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND kernel-tools-libs-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • perf is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND perf is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • python-perf is earlier than 0:3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7
  • AND python-perf is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK