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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 RHSA-2020-4288-01 Important: Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical security patch issued for CentOS Linux addressing vulnerabilities relating to type confusion and potential data exposure.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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: net: bluetooth: type confusion while processing AMP packets (CVE-2020-12351)
* kernel: net: bluetooth: information leak when processing certain AMP packets (CVE-2020-12352)
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 information leak critical kernel bluetooth type confusion

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-80.30.1.el8_0.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4288-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4288
Issue date: 2020-10-20

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 information leak critical kernel bluetooth type confusion

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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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