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RedHat Advisory RHSA-2020-3389-01: Critical Kernel-Rt Heap Overflow Patch

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Kernel-rt patch released for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, featuring crucial security enhancements to mitigate buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2

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):
* kernel: buffer overflow in mwifiex_cmd_append_vsie_tlv function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c (CVE-2020-12653)
* kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_ret_wmm_get_status function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/wmm.c (CVE-2020-12654)
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):
* update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 realtime-kernel sources (BZ#1858091)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow heap overflow Red Hat Enterprise security impact important update kernel-rt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12653 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12654 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2:
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.noarch.rpm kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-693.72.1.rt56.672.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
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Severity
important
Lowest
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3389-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-6
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3389
Issue date: 2020-08-11

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 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow heap overflow Red Hat Enterprise security impact important update kernel-rt

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1831868 - CVE-2020-12653 kernel: buffer overflow in mwifiex_cmd_append_vsie_tlv function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c

1832530 - CVE-2020-12654 kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_ret_wmm_get_status function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/wmm.c

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