Synopsis
Important: kernel-alt security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for kernel-alt 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-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.
Security Fix(es):
- kernel: double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c (CVE-2017-18595)
- kernel: use-after-free in __blk_add_trace in kernel/trace/blktrace.c (CVE-2019-19768)
- Kernel: NetLabel: null pointer dereference while receiving CIPSO packet with null category may cause kernel panic (CVE-2020-10711)
- kernel: out of bounds write in function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c (CVE-2017-18551)
- kernel: out of bounds write in i2c driver leads to local escalation of privilege (CVE-2019-9454)
- kernel: denial of service in in xfs_setattr_nonsize in fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c (CVE-2019-15538)
- kernel: mounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image, performing some operations, and unmounting can lead to a use-after-free in ext4_put_super in fs/ext4/super.c (CVE-2019-19447)
- kernel: a malicious USB device in the drivers/input/ff-memless.c leads to use-after-free (CVE-2019-19524)
- kernel: out-of-bounds read in set_fdc in drivers/block/floppy.c (CVE-2020-9383)
- kernel: null pointer dereference in dlpar_parse_cc_property in arch/powerrc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c causing denial of service (CVE-2019-12614)
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):
- [7.5-alt][ext4/xfstests generic/468] fix fdatasync(2) after fallocate(2) operation (upstream fixed) [rhel-alt-7.6.z] (BZ#1554273)
- [RHEL-ALT-7.6.z][arm64] CN99xx: DIMM errors not populated in EDAC sysfs (BZ#1778697)
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 for ARM 64 7 aarch64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x
Fixes
- BZ - 1718176 - CVE-2019-12614 kernel: null pointer dereference in dlpar_parse_cc_property in arch/powerrc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c causing denial of service
- BZ - 1746777 - CVE-2019-15538 kernel: denial of service in in xfs_setattr_nonsize in fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
- BZ - 1757368 - CVE-2017-18551 kernel: out of bounds write in function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c
- BZ - 1758671 - CVE-2017-18595 kernel: double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c
- BZ - 1781679 - CVE-2019-19447 kernel: mounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image, performing some operations, and unmounting can lead to a use-after-free in ext4_put_super in fs/ext4/super.c
- BZ - 1783459 - CVE-2019-19524 kernel: a malicious USB device in the drivers/input/ff-memless.c leads to use-after-free
- BZ - 1786164 - CVE-2019-19768 kernel: use-after-free in __blk_add_trace in kernel/trace/blktrace.c
- BZ - 1810685 - CVE-2020-9383 kernel: out-of-bounds read in set_fdc in drivers/block/floppy.c
- BZ - 1818818 - CVE-2019-9454 kernel: out of bounds write in i2c driver leads to local escalation of privilege
- BZ - 1825116 - CVE-2020-10711 Kernel: NetLabel: null pointer dereference while receiving CIPSO packet with null category may cause kernel panic
CVEs
References
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