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Red Hat: RHSA-2018:1352-01 Moderate: Kernel DoS Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2018
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The recent notification from Red Hat provides crucial details regarding a kernel patch for RHEL 5.9 that resolves a Denial of Service vulnerability. Implement the updates immediately.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life

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):
* Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS (CVE-2018-8897)
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.
Red Hat would like to thank Nick Peterson (Everdox Tech LLC) and Andy Lutomirski for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue kernel update software update moderate impact Red Hat Enterprise DoS fix

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8897 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/pop_ss

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.9 server):
Source: kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.src.rpm
i386: kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm
ia64: kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm
noarch:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1352-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1352
Issue date: 2018-05-08

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 LongLife.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue kernel update software update moderate impact Red Hat Enterprise DoS fix

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.9 server) - i386, ia64, noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1567074 - CVE-2018-8897 Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS

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