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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-4609-01 Moderate: Kernel-RT Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An update for the kernel-rt package has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, addressing security vulnerabilities classified as moderate in severity.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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: use after free due to race condition in the video driver leads to local privilege escalation (CVE-2019-9458)
* kernel: use-after-free in drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c (CVE-2019-15917)
* kernel: out-of-bounds access in function hclge_tm_schd_mode_vnet_base_cfg (CVE-2019-15925)
* kernel: memory leak in ccp_run_sha_cmd() (CVE-2019-18808)
* kernel: Denial Of Service in the __ipmi_bmc_register() (CVE-2019-19046)
* kernel: out-of-bounds write in ext4_xattr_set_entry in fs/ext4/xattr.c (CVE-2019-19319)
* Kernel: kvm: OOB memory write via kvm_dev_ioctl_get_cpuid (CVE-2019-19332)
* kernel: use-after-free in ext4_put_super (CVE-2019-19447)
* kernel: a malicious USB device in the drivers/input/ff-memless.c leads to use-after-free (CVE-2019-19524)
* kernel: race condition caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer (CVE-2019-19537)
* kernel: use-after-free in serial_ir_init_module() (CVE-2019-19543)
* kernel: use-after-free in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry (CVE-2019-19767)
* kernel: use-after-free in debugfs_remove (CVE-2019-19770)
* kernel: out-of-bounds write via crafted keycode table (CVE-2019-20636)
* kernel: possible use-after-free due to a race condition in cdev_get of char_dev.c (CVE-2020-0305)
* kernel: out-of-bounds read in in vc_do_resize (CVE-2020-8647)
* kernel: use-after-free in n_tty_receive_buf_common (CVE-2020-8648)
* kernel: invalid read location in vgacon_invert_region (CVE-2020-8649)
* kernel: uninitialized kernel data leak in userspace coredumps (CVE-2020-10732)
* kernel: SELinux netlink permission check bypass (CVE-2020-10751)
* kernel: out-of-bounds write in mpol_parse_str function in mm/mempolicy.c (CVE-2020-11565)
* kernel: mishandles invalid descriptors in drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlink_cit.c (CVE-2020-11668)
* kernel: out-of-bounds write in xdp_umem_reg (CVE-2020-12659)
* kernel: sg_write function lacks an sg_remove_request call in a certain failure case (CVE-2020-12770)
* kernel: possible to send arbitrary signals to a privileged (suidroot) parent process (CVE-2020-12826)
* kernel: referencing inode of removed superblock in get_futex_key() causes UAF (CVE-2020-14381)
* kernel: soft-lockups in iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() could result in DoS (CVE-2020-25641)
* kernel: kernel pointer leak due to WARN_ON statement in video driver leads to local information disclosure (CVE-2019-9455)
* kernel: null-pointer dereference in drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c (CVE-2019-16231)
* kernel: null pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c (CVE-2019-16233)
* kernel: memory leak in af9005_identify_state() function in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c (CVE-2019-18809)
* kernel: A memory leak in the mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf() (CVE-2019-19056)
* kernel: memory leak in the crypto_report() function in crypto/crypto_user_base.c allows for DoS (CVE-2019-19062)
* kernel: Two memory leaks in the rtl_usb_probe() (CVE-2019-19063)
* kernel: A memory leak in the rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb() (CVE-2019-19068)
* kernel: A memory leak in the predicate_parse() function in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c allows for a DoS (CVE-2019-19072)
* kernel: information leak bug caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c (CVE-2019-19533)
* kernel: Null pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c (CVE-2019-20054)
* kernel: possibility of memory disclosure when reading the file /proc/sys/kernel/rh_features (CVE-2020-10774)
* kernel: vhost-net: stack overflow in get_raw_socket while checking sk_family field (CVE-2020-10942)
* kernel: sync of excessive duration via an XFS v5 image with crafted metadata (CVE-2020-12655)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9455 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9458 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15917 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15925 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16231 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16233 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18808 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18809 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19046 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19056 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19062 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19063 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19068 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19072 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19319 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19332 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19447 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19524 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19533 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19537 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19543 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19767 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19770 Read the Full Advisory

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 8):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 8):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8.x86_64.rpm

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4609-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 Real Time (v. 8) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV (v. 8) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1733495 - BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:974

1759052 - CVE-2019-15925 kernel: out-of-bounds access in function hclge_tm_schd_mode_vnet_base_cfg

1760100 - CVE-2019-15917 kernel: use-after-free in drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c

1760310 - CVE-2019-16231 kernel: null-pointer dereference in drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c

1760420 - CVE-2019-16233 kernel: null pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c

1774946 - CVE-2019-19072 kernel: A memory leak in the predicate_parse() function in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c allows for a DoS

1774963 - CVE-2019-19068 kernel: A memory leak in the rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb() function in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c allows for a DoS

1774988 - CVE-2019-19046 kernel: Denial Of Service in the __ipmi_bmc_register() function in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

1775015 - CVE-2019-19063 kernel: Two memory leaks in the rtl_usb_probe() function in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c allow for a DoS

1775021 - CVE-2019-19062 kernel: memory leak in the crypto_report() function in crypto/crypto_user_base.c allows for DoS

1775097 - CVE-2019-19056 kernel: A memory leak in the mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c allows to cause DoS

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