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🛡️ ALSA-2023:1470 — bpftool (CVE-2022-4744 +2 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: tun: avoid double free in tun_free_netdev (CVE-2022-4744)
  • ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)
  • kernel: net: CPU soft lockup in TC mirred egress-to-ingress action (CVE-2022-4269)

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):

  • AlmaLinux9.0 - zfcp: fix missing auto port scan and thus missing target ports (BZ#2127880)
  • Cgroups_v2, when creating new cgroup/container, resets the cpu affinity masks for all usr processes on the system. (BZ#2143766)
  • AlmaLinux9.0 - boot: Add secure boot trailer (BZ#2151528)
  • kernel-rt-debug: WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected (&n->list_lock->&p->pi_lock->&lock->wait_lock) (BZ#2160614)
  • Support cpuset.sched_load_balance by changing default CPUset directory structure (BZ#2161105)
  • AlmaLinux9.0 - s390/kexec: fix ipl report address for kdump (BZ#2166903)
  • libgpiod doesn't seem to work with Interphase gpiochip (BZ#2166956)
  • Azure AlmaLinux9 scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM (BZ#2170227)

Enhancement(s):

  • IBM 9.2 FEAT: Upgrade the QETH driver to latest from upstream, e.g. kernel 6.0 (BZ#2166304)
  • Intel 9.2 FEAT SPR CPU: AMX: Improve the init_fpstate setup code (BZ#2168382)

Affected software

ALSA-2023:1470 is recorded against 27 packages.

  • bpftool (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-core (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-cross-headers (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-debug (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-debug-core (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-debug-devel (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-debug-devel-matched (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-debug-modules (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-devel (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-devel-matched (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-doc (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-modules (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-modules-extra (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-tools (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-tools-libs (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-tools-libs-devel (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-zfcpdump (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-core (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-devel (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-modules (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
Show the remaining 3 packages
  • kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • perf (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)
  • python3-perf (fixed in 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 March 2023 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

bpftool has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-03-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bpftool 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-abi-stablelists 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-core 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-cross-headers 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-debug 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-debug-core 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-debug-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-debug-modules 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-debug-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-doc 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-modules 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-tools 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-tools-libs 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-tools-libs-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-zfcpdump 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-zfcpdump-core 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-zfcpdump-devel 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-zfcpdump-modules 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
perf 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1
python3-perf 5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1

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