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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2020:5418-01 Moderate: Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important kernel security patch for CentOS 8.2 addressing vulnerabilities and enhancing data protection measures.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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: information exposure in drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c (CVE-2020-16166)
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):
* [RHEL-8.3][arm64] CN99xx: DIMM errors not populated in EDAC sysfs (BZ#1857754)
* sctp: backports from upstream, 2nd phase (BZ#1878308)
* Backport upstream OVS performance patch fix (BZ#1879936)
* avoid flush_backlog IPI for isolated CPUs by configuring RPS cpumask (BZ#1883315)
* Unexpected fragmentation needed error, OpenShift 4, OVS, VXLAN, GSO, Azure (BZ#1885767)
* XFS: reflinked file data corruption (BZ#1886896)
* Scheduler: rq->tmp_alone_branch != &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list (BZ#1890123)
* geneve: add transport ports in route lookup for geneve (BZ#1891819)
* BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: handler106/3082 (BZ#1893282)
* HRTICK not armed in specific cases with SCHED_DEADLINE (BZ#1894074)
* RHEL8.1 - ibmveth is producing TX errors over VXLAN when large send (TSO) is enabled (-> related to Red Hat bug 1816254 - OCP 4.3 - Authentication clusteroperator is in unknown state on POWER 9 servers") (BZ#1896300)
* RHEL8.2 - mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding (BZ#1896352)
* block layer: update to upstream v5.8 (BZ#1896788)
* [Regression] RHEL8.2 zstream - Undetected Data corruption in MPI workloads that use VSX for reductions on POWER9 DD2.1 systems (BZ#1897279)
* ARO: excessive pod memory allocation causes node lockup (BZ#1901549)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16166 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: kernel-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: bpftool-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-core-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-devel-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-headers-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm perf-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm python3-perf-4.18.0-193.37.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5418-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-12-15

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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 CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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