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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: RHSA-2018-1353 Moderate DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2018
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Notice regarding kernel security assessed as Moderate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, addressing a Denial of Service vulnerability identified by CVE-2018-8897.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support

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 moderate kernel update DoS issue security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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 Server (v. 5 ELS):
Source: kernel-2.6.18-431.el5.src.rpm
i386: kernel-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-431.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.i686.rpm
noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.18-431.el5.noarch.rpm
s390x: kernel-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-431.el5.s390x.rpm
x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-431.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-431.el5.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1353-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1353
Issue date: 2018-05-08

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Extended Lifecycle Support.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate kernel update DoS issue security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 5 ELS) - i386, noarch, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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