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Red Hat: RHSA-2018-3586-01 Important Kernel-RT Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Vital kernel-rt enhancement for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 tackles significant vulnerabilities, enhancing both security measures and overall system reliability.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

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 flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391)
* kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344)
* kernel: mm: use-after-free in do_get_mempolicy function allows local DoS or other unspecified impact (CVE-2018-10675)
* kernel: Integer overflow in Linux's create_elf_tables function (CVE-2018-14634)
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 Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391 and Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-14634.
Bug Fix(es):
* The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the 3.10.0-693.43.1 source tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1632422)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18344 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5391 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10675 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14634 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/articles/3553061 https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/mutagen-astronomy

Package List

Red Hat MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2:
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.noarch.rpm kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-693.43.1.rt56.630.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:3586-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-6
Issue date: 2018-11-13

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.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 MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1575065 - CVE-2018-10675 kernel: mm: use-after-free in do_get_mempolicy function allows local DoS or other unspecified impact

1609664 - CVE-2018-5391 kernel: IP fragments with random offsets allow a remote denial of service (FragmentSmack)

1610958 - CVE-2017-18344 kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c

1624498 - CVE-2018-14634 kernel: Integer overflow in Linux's create_elf_tables function

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