The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
kernel: buffer overflow in IPsec ESP transformation code (CVE-2022-27666)
kernel: security regression for CVE-2018-13405 (CVE-2021-4037)
kernel: new DNS Cache Poisoning Attack based on ICMP fragment needed packets replies (CVE-2021-20322)
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: Add support for CPU-MF counter second version 7 (BZ#2050686)
BNXT driver logging added latency tc-hw-offload (BZ#2059860)
RHEL 8 not disabling the qla2x00_timer() when the system is rebooted. (BZ#2066347)
spec: Fix separate tools build (BZ#2074075)
VirtIO Throughput for VM on host with OVS HW-Offload is very low (BZ#2074222)
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3245! (BZ#2074241)
sctp connection abort unexpected. (BZ#2075131)
[GSS]OCP node kernel crash due to ceph_fsync - unsafe_request_wait+0x143 (BZ#2080072)
TCP doesn’t retransmit if in reorder state and waits for RTO (BZ#2080973)
kernel paging space issue (BZ#2080990)
Important ice bug fixes (BZ#2081795)
Enhancement(s):
Bring UV subsystem up to date with upstream kernel 5.12 (BZ#2058190)
update qla2xxx driver to latest upstream (BZ#2060427)
Update ice and iavf drivers to upstream v5.17 (BZ#2070546)