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Red Hat Enterprise 7.7: RHSA-2020-1984-01 Moderate: Kernel Security

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Recent kernel patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 addresses vulnerabilities and bugs, mitigating data leakage threats and enhancing system security.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 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: powerpc: incomplete Spectre-RSB mitigation leads to information exposure (CVE-2019-18660)
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):
* [Stratus 7.6 Bug] Deadlock on hcd->bandwidth_mutex when usb controller fails during initialization (BZ#1764528)
* RHEL7.7 Snapshot5 - retry when cpu offline races with migration (BZ#1766094)
* Slow console output with ast (Aspeed) graphics driver (BZ#1780147)
* RHEL7.7 - qeth: add safeguards to RX data path (BZ#1792248)
* 'soft lockup' events during unmount of container file system due to bloated dentry cache / memory cgroup slab cache reclaim not available in RHEL7 (BZ#1796358)
* [GSS] Can't access the mount point due to possible blocking of i/o on rbd (BZ#1796435)
* [xfstests]: copy_file_range cause corruption on rhel-7 (BZ#1797967)
* kernel: UAF in cdev_put() when a PTP device is removed while its chardev is open (BZ#1798395)
* [HPE 7.8 Bug] RHEL7.8 kernel may ignore NMI from ilo (BZ#1798397)
* [HPEMC RHEL 7.7 RHEL 7.8 REGRESSION] kernel not populating numa_nod in /sys/devices... for PMEM (BZ#1801697)
* Unable to exclude files from auditing (BZ#1806429)
* DNAT'd packet is not unmangled upon reply on openshift node (BZ#1806446)
* port show-kabi to python3 (BZ#1806929)
* top shows super high loads when tuned profile realtime-virtual-host is applied (BZ#1808029)
* Backport CIFS stale ESTALE handling and dentry revalidation patches (BZ#1811053)
* Observed a memory leak while using dm-multipath (BZ#1812936)
* dm-multipath high load backport incorrect (BZ#1814536)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18660 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: bpftool-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7):
x86_64: bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.21.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1984-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-04-30

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1777825 - CVE-2019-18660 kernel: powerpc: incomplete Spectre-RSB mitigation leads to information exposure

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