The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
- kernel: stack overflow in doprocdointvec and procskipspaces (CVE-2022-4378)
- ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside sndctlelem_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):
- Lazy irqwork does not raise softirq on PREEMPTRT [almalinux-8] (BZ#2172163)
- The latest AlmaLinux 8.7.z3 kernel changes need to be merged into the RT source tree to keep source parity between the two kernels. (BZ#2172278)