Synopsis
Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
- kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver (CVE-2019-14816)
- kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c (CVE-2019-14895)
- kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c (CVE-2019-14901)
- kernel: buffer overflow in cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid in net/wireless/wext-sme.c (CVE-2019-17133)
- kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping in CVE-2019-11599 (CVE-2019-14898)
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):
- [Azure][7.8] Include patch "PCI: hv: Avoid use of hv_pci_dev->pci_slot after freeing it" (BZ#1766089)
- [Hyper-V][RHEL7.8] When accelerated networking is enabled on RedHat, network interface(eth0) moved to new network namespace does not obtain IP address. (BZ#1766093)
- [Azure][RHEL 7.6] hv_vmbus probe pass-through GPU card failed (BZ#1766097)
- SMB3: Do not error out on large file transfers if server responds with STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES (BZ#1767621)
- Since RHEL commit 5330f5d09820 high load can cause dm-multipath path failures (BZ#1770113)
- Hard lockup in free_one_page()->_raw_spin_lock() because sosreport command is reading from /proc/pagetypeinfo (BZ#1770732)
- patchset for x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() (BZ#1772812)
- fix compat statfs64() returning EOVERFLOW for when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (BZ#1775678)
- Guest crash after load cpuidle-haltpoll driver (BZ#1776289)
- RHEL 7.7 long I/O stalls with bnx2fc from not masking off scope bits of retry delay value (BZ#1776290)
- Multiple "mv" processes hung on a gfs2 filesystem (BZ#1777297)
- Moving Egress IP will result in conntrack sessions being DESTROYED (BZ#1779564)
- core: backports from upstream (BZ#1780033)
- kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c:482! (BZ#1780148)
- Race between tty_open() and flush_to_ldisc() using the tty_struct->driver_data field. (BZ#1780163)
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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1744149 - CVE-2019-14816 kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver
- BZ - 1771909 - CVE-2019-17133 kernel: buffer overflow in cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid in net/wireless/wext-sme.c
- BZ - 1773519 - CVE-2019-14901 kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c
- BZ - 1774671 - CVE-2019-14898 kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping in CVE-2019-11599
- BZ - 1774870 - CVE-2019-14895 kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
CVEs
References
Vulmon