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Red Hat 8.2 RHSA-2020:5428-01 Moderate: Kernel-Rt Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Balanced security patch for RHEL 8.2 aimed at kernel-rt vulnerabilities and bug resolutions related to CVE-2020-16167.
An update for kernel-rt 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
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):
* kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.2.z#5 source tree (BZ#1873287)
* optimization for delaying the freeing of empty slubs causes a NULL pointer dereference (BZ#1880502)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact threat resolution information exposure kernel-rt

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-193.37.1.rt13.87.el8_2.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5428-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5428
Issue date: 2020-12-15

Topic

An update for kernel-rt 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact threat resolution information exposure kernel-rt

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v. 8.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v. 8.2) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

1880502 - optimization for delaying the freeing of empty slubs causes a NULL pointer dereference [rhel-8.2.0.z]

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