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RedHat: RHSA-2019-1484-01 Crucial Update for Kernel DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New release for Red Hat's core system affecting multiple variants, essential for enhancements in security and performance improvements.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise L...

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):
* An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) segments. While processing SACK segments, the Linux kernel's socket buffer (SKB) data structure becomes fragmented. Each fragment is about TCP maximum segment size (MSS) bytes. To efficiently process SACK blocks, the Linux kernel merges multiple fragmented SKBs into one, potentially overflowing the variable holding the number of segments. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the Linux kernel by sending a crafted sequence of SACK segments on a TCP connection with small value of TCP MSS, resulting in a denial of service (DoS). (CVE-2019-11477)
* Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption while processing SACK blocks allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11478)
* Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption for TCP connections with low MSS allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11479)
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):
* THP: Race between MADV_DONTNEED and NUMA hinting node migration code (BZ#1698104)
* [RHEL7] md_clear flag missing from /proc/cpuinfo on late microcode update (BZ#1712990)
* [RHEL7] MDS mitigations are not enabled after double microcode update (BZ#1712995)
* WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/jump_label.c:90 __static_key_slow_dec+0xa6/0xb0 (BZ#1713001)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11477 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11478 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11479 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.3):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.3):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: kernel-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-514.66.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1484-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2019-06-17

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Telco Extended UpdateSupport, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Update Services for SAPSolutions.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 Server AUS (v. 7.3) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.3) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.3) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional E4S (v. 7.3) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 7.3) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 7.3) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1719123 - CVE-2019-11477 Kernel: tcp: integer overflow while processing SACK blocks allows remote denial of service

1719128 - CVE-2019-11478 Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption while processing SACK blocks allows remote denial of service

1719129 - CVE-2019-11479 Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption for TCP connections with low MSS allows remote denial of service

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