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Red Hat 7 RHSA-2016:2110-01 Critical: Kernel-RT Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2016
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The kernel-rt patch for Red Hat resolves severe vulnerabilities and mitigates possible exploit threats within the platform.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
* A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-5195, Important)
* Linux kernel built with the 802.1Q/802.1ad VLAN(CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q) OR Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network(CONFIG_VXLAN) with Transparent Ethernet Bridging(TEB) GRO support, is vulnerable to a stack overflow issue. It could occur while receiving large packets via GRO path; As an unlimited recursion could unfold in both VLAN and TEB modules, leading to a stack corruption in the kernel. (CVE-2016-7039, Important)
Red Hat would like to thank Phil Oester for reporting CVE-2016-5195.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel-rt Important

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5195 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7039 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/DirtyCow

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7):
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.src.rpm
noarch:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2110-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2110.html
Issue date: 2016-10-26

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel-rt Important

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1375944 - CVE-2016-7039 kernel: remotely triggerable unbounded recursion in the vlan gro code leading to a kernel crash

1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage

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