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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2020-5050 Important: Kpatch Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent kernel patch release issued for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to tackle significant security vulnerabilities.
An update for kpatch-patch 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

Summary

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: metadata validator in XFS may cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt (CVE-2020-14385)
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 kernel patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kpatch-patch metadata validator

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14385 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-1.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-1.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5050-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5050
Issue date: 2020-11-10

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch 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 kernel patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kpatch-patch metadata validator

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1874800 - CVE-2020-14385 kernel: metadata validator in XFS may cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt

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