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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4279-01 Important: Kernel-Alt Security Update

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An update for kernel-alt 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-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: net: bluetooth: type confusion while processing AMP packets (CVE-2020-12351)
* kernel: net: bluetooth: information leak when processing certain AMP packets (CVE-2020-12352)
* kernel: information exposure in drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c (CVE-2020-16166)
* kernel: TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code (CVE-2020-25212)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important information exposure bluetooth kernel-alt NFS clients

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12351 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12352 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16166 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25212 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/BleedingTooth

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7):
Source: kernel-alt-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.src.rpm
aarch64: kernel-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm perf-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm python-perf-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.aarch64.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: kernel-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-bootwrapper-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.14.0-115.32.1.el7a.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4279-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4279
Issue date: 2020-10-19

Topic

An update for kernel-alt 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important information exposure bluetooth kernel-alt NFS clients

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le

Bugs Fixed

1865751 - CVE-2020-16166 kernel: information exposure in drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c

1877575 - CVE-2020-25212 kernel: TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code

1886521 - CVE-2020-12351 kernel: net: bluetooth: type confusion while processing AMP packets

1886529 - CVE-2020-12352 kernel: net: bluetooth: information leak when processing certain AMP packets

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