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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 RHSA-2019:2566-01 Vital Kernel Security Patch

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical kernel security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5. Remember to restart for modifications to be applied.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support

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: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)
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):
* [Dell EMC 7.6 BUG] File system corrupting with I/O Stress on H330 PERC on AMD Systems (BZ#1698337)
* [RHEL7.7] Refined TSC clocksource calibration occasionally fails on some SkyLake-X servers (BZ#1719780)
* Poor system performance from thundering herd of kworkers competing for mddev->flush_bio ownership (BZ#1721533)
* fragmented packets timing out (BZ#1729412)
* After update to RHEL 7.6 (3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64) from 7.4, customer has experienced multiple panics in kernel at BUG at drivers/iommu/iova.c:859! (BZ#1731299)
* kernel build: speed up debuginfo extraction (BZ#1731463)
Enhancement(s):
* [Intel 7.6 FEAT] Graphics Kernel Driver v4.15 updates (BZ#1716309)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel fix important update system reboot

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13405 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5):
x86_64: kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2566-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2566
Issue date: 2019-08-27

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5Extended Update Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel fix important update system reboot

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1599161 - CVE-2018-13405 kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members

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