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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2018:1062 Critical Security Kernel Updates

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2018
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A significant enhancement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel tackles numerous urgent security vulnerabilities and resolves several issues.
An update for kernel 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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling (CVE-2017-5754, Important, KVM for Power)
* kernel: Buffer overflow in firewire driver via crafted incoming packets (CVE-2016-8633, Important)
* kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket (CVE-2017-8824, Important)
* Kernel: kvm: nVMX: L2 guest could access hardware(L0) CR8 register (CVE-2017-12154, Important)
* kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation (CVE-2017-13166, Important)
* kernel: media: use-after-free in [tuner-xc2028] media driver (CVE-2016-7913, Moderate)
* kernel: drm/vmwgfx: fix integer overflow in vmw_surface_define_ioctl() (CVE-2017-7294, Moderate)
* kernel: Incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation (CVE-2017-9725, Moderate)
* kernel: memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO vectors(CVE-2017-12190, Moderate)
* kernel: vfs: BUG in truncate_inode_pages_range() and fuse client (CVE-2017-15121, Moderate)
* kernel: Use-after-free in userfaultfd_event_wait_completion function in userfaultfd.c (CVE-2017-15126, Moderate)
* kernel: net: double-free and memory corruption in get_net_ns_by_id() (CVE-2017-15129, Moderate)
* kernel: Use-after-free in snd_seq_ioctl_create_port() (CVE-2017-15265, Moderate)
* kernel: Missing capabilities check in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c allows for unprivileged access to systemwide nfnl_cthelper_list structure (CVE-2017-17448, Moderate)
* kernel: Missing namespace check in net/netlink/af_netlink.c allows for network monitors to observe systemwide activity (CVE-2017-17449, Moderate)
* kernel: Unallocated memory access by malicious USB device via bNumInterfaces overflow (CVE-2017-17558, Moderate)
* kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c (CVE-2017-18017, Moderate)
* kernel: Race condition in drivers/md/dm.c:dm_get_from_kobject() allows local users to cause a denial of service (CVE-2017-18203, Moderate)
* kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ (CVE-2017-1000252, Moderate)
* Kernel: KVM: DoS via write flood to I/O port 0x80 (CVE-2017-1000407, Moderate)
* kernel: Stack information leak in the EFS element (CVE-2017-1000410, Moderate)
* kernel: Kernel address information leak in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpi_smbus_hc_add() function potentially allowing KASLR bypass (CVE-2018-5750, Moderate)
* kernel: Race condition in sound system can lead to denial of service (CVE-2018-1000004, Moderate)
* kernel: multiple Low security impact security issues (CVE-2016-3672, CVE-2017-14140, CVE-2017-15116, CVE-2017-15127, CVE-2018-6927, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank Eyal Itkin for reporting CVE-2016-8633; Google Project Zero for reporting CVE-2017-5754; Mohamed Ghannam for reporting CVE-2017-8824; Jim Mattson (Google.com) for reporting CVE-2017-12154; Vitaly Mayatskih for reporting CVE-2017-12190; Andrea Arcangeli (Engineering) for reporting CVE-2017-15126; Kirill Tkhai for reporting CVE-2017-15129; Jan H. Schönherr (Amazon) for reporting CVE-2017-1000252; and Armis Labs for reporting CVE-2017-1000410. The CVE-2017-15121 issue was discovered by Miklos Szeredi (Red Hat) and the CVE-2017-15116 issue was discovered by ChunYu Wang (Red Hat).
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3672 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7913 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8633 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7294 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8824 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9725 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12154 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12190 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13166 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14140 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15116 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15121 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15126 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15127 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15129 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15265 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17448 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17449 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17558 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18017 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18203 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000252 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000407 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-862.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-862.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.src.rpm


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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1062-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2018-04-10

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 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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1132610 - nfsd does not release free space of a file created with dd oflag=direct where there was no space left on device even after manual deletion

1324749 - CVE-2016-3672 kernel: unlimiting the stack disables ASLR

1334439 - Unable to disable IPv6 DAD or Optimistic DAD for all interfaces

1372079 - ixgbe nic is falsely advertising MII support

1391490 - CVE-2016-8633 kernel: Buffer overflow in firewire driver via crafted incoming packets

1402885 - CVE-2016-7913 kernel: media: use-after-free in [tuner-xc2028] media driver

1436798 - CVE-2017-7294 kernel: drm/vmwgfx: fix integer overflow in vmw_surface_define_ioctl()

1450205 - Gratuitous ARP updates received in span of 2-3 seconds time frame are all ignored

1458032 - [Intel 7.5 Bug] KVMGT: Bogus PCI BAR emulation

1460213 - cls_matchall: kernel panic when used with classful qdiscs

1461282 - kernel: ICMP rate limiting is too aggressive on loopback

1471875 - soft lockups during unmount when dentry cache is very large

1488329 - CVE-2017-14140 kernel: Missing permission check in move_pages system call

1489088 - CVE-2017-9725 kernel: Incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation

1489542 - Behavior change in autofs expiry timer when a path walk is done following commit from BZ 1413523

1490673 - Kernel Panic always happen immediately whenever make "debug.panic_on_rcu_stall=1" set on RHEL7.4

1490781 - CVE-2017-1000252 kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ

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