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🛡️ ALSA-2023:1566 — bpftool (CVE-2022-4378 +3 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: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces (CVE-2022-4378)
  • ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (CVE-2023-0266)
  • kernel: FUSE filesystem low-privileged user privileges escalation (CVE-2023-0386)
  • 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):

  • kernel panic on reboot due to a bug in mei_wdt module (BZ#2139770)
  • AlmaLinux8: Practically limit "Dummy wait" workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142170)
  • AMDSERVER 8.7: amdpstate driver incorrectly designed to load as default for Genoa (BZ#2151275)
  • AlmaLinux-8.8: Update RDMA core to Linux v6.0 (BZ#2161750)
  • Kernel panic observed during VxFS module unload (BZ#2162763)
  • Client not able to connect to almalinux server: SYN is answered by chalange ACK and RST is ignored (BZ#2165587)
  • AlmaLinux8.4: s390/kexec: fix ipl report address for kdump (BZ#2166296)
  • kvm-unit-test reports unhandled exception on AMD (BZ#2166362)
  • Windows Server 2019 guest randomly pauses with "KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021" (BZ#2166368)
  • Unable to get QinQ working with ConnectX-4 Lx in SR-IOV scenario (BZ#2166665)
  • panic in fib6_rule_suppress+0x22 with custom xdp prog involved in (BZ#2167602)
  • net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free when reverting termination table (BZ#2167640)
  • AlmaLinux 8.7: EEH injection failed to recover on Mellanox adapter. (BZ#2167645)
  • mlx5: lag and sriov fixes (BZ#2167647)
  • AlmaLinux8.4: dasd: fix no record found for raw_track_access (BZ#2167776)
  • GSS: Set of fixes in ceph kernel module to prevent OCS node kernel crash - blocklist the kclient when receiving corrupted snap trace (BZ#2168896)
  • Azure AlmaLinux8 scsi: storvsc: Fix swiotlb bounce buffer leak in confidential VM (BZ#2170228)
  • fast_isolate_freepages scans out of target zone (BZ#2170576)
  • Backport Request for locking/rwsem commits (BZ#2170939)
  • ipv6 traffic stop when an sriov vf have ipv6 address (BZ#2172550)
  • Hyper-V AlmaLinux8.8: Update MANA driver (BZ#2173103)

Enhancement(s):

  • Intel 8.8 FEAT SPR CPU: AMX: Improve the init_fpstate setup code (BZ#2168384)

Affected software

ALSA-2023:1566 is recorded against 24 packages.

  • bpftool (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-abi-stablelists (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-core (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-cross-headers (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-debug (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-debug-core (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-debug-devel (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-debug-modules (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-debug-modules-extra (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-devel (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-doc (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-modules (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-modules-extra (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-tools (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-tools-libs (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-tools-libs-devel (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-zfcpdump (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-core (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-devel (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-modules (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • perf (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)
  • python3-perf (fixed in 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7)

Timeline and source

Published on 4 April 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)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

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Details

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

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bpftool 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-abi-stablelists 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-core 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-cross-headers 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-debug 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-debug-core 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-debug-devel 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-debug-modules 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-debug-modules-extra 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-devel 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-doc 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-modules 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-modules-extra 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-tools 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-tools-libs 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-tools-libs-devel 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-zfcpdump 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-zfcpdump-core 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-zfcpdump-devel 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-zfcpdump-modules 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
perf 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7
python3-perf 4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7

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