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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2019-0818-01 Important Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial kernel safety and patch enhancement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivering vital insights and repercussions.
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):
* Kernel: KVM: potential use-after-free via kvm_ioctl_create_device() (CVE-2019-6974)
* Kernel: KVM: nVMX: use-after-free of the hrtimer for emulation of the preemption timer (CVE-2019-7221)
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):
* rbd: avoid corruption on partially completed bios [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1672514)
* xfs_vm_writepages deadly embrace between kworker and user task. [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1673281)
* Offload Connections always get vlan priority 0 [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1673821)
* [NOKIA] RHEL sends flood of Neighbour Solicitations under specific conditions [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1677179)
* RHEL 7.6 - Host crash occurred on NVMe/IB system while running controller reset [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1678214)
* [rhel7] raid0 md workqueue deadlock with stacked md devices [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1678215)
* [PureStorage7.6]nvme disconnect following an unsuccessful Admin queue creation causes kernel panic [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1678216)
* RFC: Regression with -fstack-check in 'backport upstream large stack guard patch to RHEL6' patch [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1678221)
* [Hyper-V] [RHEL 7.6]hv_netvsc: Fix a network regression after ifdown/ifup [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1679997)
* rtc_cmos: probe of 00:01 failed with error -16 [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1683078)
* ACPI WDAT watchdog update [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1683079)
* high ovs-vswitchd CPU usage when VRRP over VXLAN tunnel causing qrouter fail-over [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1683093)
* Openshift node drops outgoing POD traffic due to NAT hashtable race in __ip_conntrack_confirm() [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1686766)
* [Backport] [v3,2/2] net: igmp: Allow user-space configuration of igmp unsolicited report interval [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1686771)
* [RHEL7.6]: Intermittently seen FIFO parity error on T6225-SO adapter [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1687487)
* The number of unsolict report about IGMP is incorrect [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1688225)
* RDT driver causing failure to boot on AMD Rome system with more than 255 CPUs [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1689120)
* mpt3sas_cm0: fault_state(0x2100)! [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1689379)
* rwsem in inconsistent state leading system to hung [rhel-7.6.z] (BZ#1690323)
Users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6974 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-7221 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: bpftool-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0818-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2019-04-23

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

1671904 - CVE-2019-7221 Kernel: KVM: nVMX: use-after-free of the hrtimer for emulation of the preemption timer

1671913 - CVE-2019-6974 Kernel: KVM: potential use-after-free via kvm_ioctl_create_device()

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