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RedHat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020:0374-01 Important Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2020
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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):
* kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver (CVE-2019-14816)
* kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c (CVE-2019-14895)
* kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c (CVE-2019-14901)
* kernel: buffer overflow in cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid in net/wireless/wext-sme.c (CVE-2019-17133)
* kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping in CVE-2019-11599 (CVE-2019-14898)
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):
* [Azure][7.8] Include patch "PCI: hv: Avoid use of hv_pci_dev->pci_slot after freeing it" (BZ#1766089)
* [Hyper-V][RHEL7.8] When accelerated networking is enabled on RedHat, network interface(eth0) moved to new network namespace does not obtain IP address. (BZ#1766093)
* [Azure][RHEL 7.6] hv_vmbus probe pass-through GPU card failed (BZ#1766097)
* SMB3: Do not error out on large file transfers if server responds with STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES (BZ#1767621)
* Since RHEL commit 5330f5d09820 high load can cause dm-multipath path failures (BZ#1770113)
* Hard lockup in free_one_page()->_raw_spin_lock() because sosreport command is reading from /proc/pagetypeinfo (BZ#1770732)
* patchset for x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() (BZ#1772812)
* fix compat statfs64() returning EOVERFLOW for when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (BZ#1775678)
* Guest crash after load cpuidle-haltpoll driver (BZ#1776289)
* RHEL 7.7 long I/O stalls with bnx2fc from not masking off scope bits of retry delay value (BZ#1776290)
* Multiple "mv" processes hung on a gfs2 filesystem (BZ#1777297)
* Moving Egress IP will result in conntrack sessions being DESTROYED (BZ#1779564)
* core: backports from upstream (BZ#1780033)
* kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c:482! (BZ#1780148)
* Race between tty_open() and flush_to_ldisc() using the tty_struct->driver_data field. (BZ#1780163)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important heap overflow kernel

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14816 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14895 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14898 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14901 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17133 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: bpftool-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0374-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0374
Issue date: 2020-02-04

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 security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important heap overflow kernel

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

1744149 - CVE-2019-14816 kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver

1771909 - CVE-2019-17133 kernel: buffer overflow in cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid in net/wireless/wext-sme.c

1773519 - CVE-2019-14901 kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c

1774671 - CVE-2019-14898 kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping in CVE-2019-11599

1774870 - CVE-2019-14895 kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c

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