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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 RHSA-2019-4164-01 Important Kernel Fix

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest kernel update for RHEL 7.2 resolves various security vulnerabilities and mandates a system reboot to implement changes.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 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):
* kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning (CVE-2018-9568)
* kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)
* Kernel: page cache side channel attacks (CVE-2019-5489)
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):
* kernel build: parallelize redhat/mod-sign.sh (BZ#1755325)

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update bug fix memory corruption important red hat enterprise system reboot

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-9568 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13405 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5489 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.2):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.2):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.83.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:4164-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4164
Issue date: 2019-12-10

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended UpdateSupport, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory kernel update bug fix memory corruption important red hat enterprise system reboot

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.2) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.2) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 7.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional E4S (v. 7.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 7.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 7.2) - noarch, 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-members1655904 - CVE-2018-9568 kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning

1664110 - CVE-2019-5489 Kernel: page cache side channel attacks

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