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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2019-2829-01 Kernel Buffer Overflow Alert

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Uncover the essential kernel patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 addressing a critical vulnerability in the vhost system.
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):
* A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host. (CVE-2019-14835)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important kernel linux

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14835 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/kernel-vhost

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: bpftool-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2829-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2829
Issue date: 2019-09-20

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important kernel linux

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

1750727 - CVE-2019-14835 kernel: vhost-net: guest to host kernel escape during migration

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