(RHSA-2022:6610) 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: heap overflow in nft_set_elem_init() (CVE-2022-34918)

• kernel: vulnerability of buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() (CVE-2022-2078)

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):

• RDMA/mlx5: Fix number of allocated XLT entries (BZ#2092270)

• mlx5, Setup hanged when run test-route-nexthop-object.sh (BZ#2092535)

• many call traces from unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x199 in amazon i4.32xlarge instance (BZ#2099417)

• X86/platform/UV: Kernel Support Fixes for UV5 platform (BZ#2107732)

• block layer: fixes for md sync slow and softlockup at blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests [9.0.0.z] (BZ#2111395)

• Fixes for NVMe/TCP dereferences an invalid, non-canonical pointer, kernel panic (BZ#2117755)

• Adding missing nvme fix to RHEL-9.1 (BZ#2117756)

• nvme/tcp mistakenly uses blk_mq_tag_to_rq(nvme_tcp_tagset(queue) (BZ#2118698)

• Important ice bug fixes (BZ#2119290)

• Power 9/ppc64le Incorrect Socket(s) & “Core(s) per socket” reported by lscpu command. (BZ#2121719)

Enhancement(s):

• lscpu does not show all of the support AMX flags (amx_int8, amx_bf16) (BZ#2108203)

• ice: Driver Update (BZ#2108204)

• iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2119477)

• i40e: Driver Update (BZ#2119479)