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Red Hat Enterprise MRG: RHSA-2021:2215-01 Essential Kernel-RT Patch

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2016
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Kernel-rt security patch released for Red Hat MRG 2.5 featuring essential updates and improvements. Discover more details.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5

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.

Summary

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: kernel-rt (3.10.0-327.18.2). This version provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements, including:
* [scsi] bnx2fc: Fix FCP RSP residual parsing and remove explicit logouts
* [scsi] mpt3sas: Fix for Asynchronous completion of timedout IO and task abort of timedout IO
* [scsi] scsi_error: should not get sense for timeout IO in scsi error handler
* [scsi] Revert libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path
* [mm] madvise: fix MADV_WILLNEED on shmem swapouts
* [cpufreq] intel_pstate: decrease number of "HWP enabled" messages and enable HWP per CPU
* [kernel] sched: Robustify topology setup
* [kernel] sched/fair: Disable tg load_avg/runnable_avg update for root_task_group
* [kernel] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg/runnable_avg into separate cacheline
* [ib] mlx5: Fix RC transport send queue overhead computation
* [fs] nfsd: fix clp->cl_revoked list deletion causing softlock in nfsd
* [fs] ceph: multiple updates
(BZ#1320168)
Security Fix(es):
* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-0758, Important)
Red Hat would like to thank Philip Pettersson of Samsung for reporting this issue.
Bug Fix(es):
* The hotplug lock and the console semaphore could be acquired in an incorrect order, which could previously lead to a deadlock causing the system console to freeze. The underlying code has been adjusted to acquire the locks in the correct order, resolving the bug with the console. (BZ#1267425)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0758 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2:
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.noarch.rpm kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-327.rt56.183.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1055-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-6
Issue date: 2016-05-12

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1300257 - CVE-2016-0758 kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()

1320168 - update the MRG 2.5.x 3.10 kernel-rt sources

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