Synopsis
Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
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: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning (CVE-2018-9568)
- kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)
- kernel: nfs: use-after-free in svc_process_common() (CVE-2018-16884)
- kernel: nfs: NULL pointer dereference due to an anomalized NFS message sequence (CVE-2018-16871)
- kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125)
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):
- Backport TCP follow-up for small buffers [mrg-r] (BZ#1732110)
- update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 realtime-kernel sources (BZ#1734469)
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Affected Products
Fixes
- BZ - 1599161 - CVE-2018-13405 kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members
- BZ - 1655162 - CVE-2018-16871 kernel: nfs: NULL pointer dereference due to an anomalized NFS message sequence
- BZ - 1655904 - CVE-2018-9568 kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning
- BZ - 1660375 - CVE-2018-16884 kernel: nfs: use-after-free in svc_process_common()
- BZ - 1724389 - CVE-2019-1125 kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability
- BZ - 1734469 - update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 realtime-kernel sources
CVEs
References