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RedHat: RHSA-2019-3908-01 Important: kernel-rt Arbitrary Memory Write

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An essential kernel-rt security patch for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 has been released, requiring a restart.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
* hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write (CVE-2019-0155)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat kernel update important kernel-rt real-time kernel arbitrary memory write

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-0155 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/solutions/i915-graphics

Package List

Red Hat MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2:
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.noarch.rpm kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-693.60.3.rt56.655.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3908-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-6
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3908
Issue date: 2019-11-19

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat kernel update important kernel-rt real-time kernel arbitrary memory write

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1724398 - CVE-2019-0155 hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write

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