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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-2169-01 Important: Bluetooth Key Exchange Issue

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
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Ubuntu releases crucial patches for its core packages, addressing vulnerabilities that affect Wi-Fi and various system operations.
An update for linux-firmware 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

Summary

The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters during Diffie-Hellman key exchange (CVE-2018-5383)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5383 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: linux-firmware-20190429-72.gitddde598.el7.src.rpm
noarch: iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl2030-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl3160-firmware-22.0.7.0-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl6000g2a-firmware-17.168.5.3-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl6000g2b-firmware-17.168.5.2-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl7260-firmware-22.0.7.0-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl7265-firmware-22.0.7.0-72.el7.noarch.rpm linux-firmware-20190429-72.gitddde598.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: linux-firmware-20190429-72.gitddde598.el7.src.rpm
noarch: iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-72.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2169-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2169
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix important key exchange Bluetooth linux-firmware

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1614159 - CVE-2018-5383 kernel: Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters during Diffie-Hellman key exchange

1654809 - [qed] 8.37.7.0 firmware image is needed for DPDK 18.11

1671610 - [Diamanti]Programming the VF MAC address fails without updated FW

1698960 - Cavium/Marvell 7.7 FEAT] BNX2X_FW: Update to 7.13.11.0 firmware files

1702330 - [NETRO 7.7 Feat] Pull new version of Netronome flower firmware (AOTC-2.10.A.23)

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