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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2019-0525-01 Moderate: Kernel-Alt Update

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Kernel and related security patch for CentOS 7 tackles moderate vulnerabilities alongside various bug resolutions.
An update for kernel-alt 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-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: out-of-bounds memcpy in fs/ext4/inline.c:ext4_read_inline_data() with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-11412)
* kernel: use-after-free in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction funtion (CVE-2018-10876)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* blk-mq IO hang in null_blk test (BZ#1581223)
* lpfc remove lpfc_enable_pbde module parameter. (BZ#1615875)
* RHEL-Alt-7.6 - [Power9][DD2.2][4.14.0-109]package installation segfaults inside debian chroot env in P9 KVM guest with HTM enabled (kvm) (BZ#1628817)
* Pegas1.1 - [P9] "threads=2" or higher is required to boot up VM with above 256 vcpu [rhel-alt-7.6.z] (BZ#1634653)
* RHEL-Alt-7.6 Snapshot5 - System crashed under stress-ng & HTX on the mix mode guest (kvm) (BZ#1637890)
* RHEL-Alt-7.6 - BostonESS:P9:DD2.01 - Testing Ethtool options 'r' and 'p' for the i40e driver causes the kernel to crash and reboots the server (i40e) (CORAL) (BZ#1644606)
* RHEL-Alt-7.6 Host/RHV4.2: system crashed and kdump failed to collect CPUs in KVM guests (BZ#1649196)
* RHEL-Alt-7.6 Host:BostonLC:P9:boslcp1: system crashed in __find_linux_pte+0xac (kvm) (BZ#1651065)
* [LLNL 7.7 Bug] Rasdaemon doesn’t seem to collect APEI errors (BZ#1664495)
Users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10876 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11412 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7):
Source: kernel-alt-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.src.rpm
aarch64: kernel-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm perf-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm python-perf-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: kernel-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-bootwrapper-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-4.14.0-115.6.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0525-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2019-03-12

Topic

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

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le

Bugs Fixed

1582358 - CVE-2018-11412 kernel: out-of-bounds memcpy in fs/ext4/inline.c:ext4_read_inline_data() with crafted ext4 image

1596773 - CVE-2018-10876 kernel: use-after-free in jbd2_journal_commit_transaction funtion

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