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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2021-0862-01 Important Kernel Issues

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant kpatch-patch upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tackles vital security vulnerabilities. More information enclosed!
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: SCSI target (LIO) write to any block on ILO backstore (CVE-2020-28374)
* kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free (CVE-2020-29661)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel important security security impact kernel issues kpatch-patch kpatch patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28374 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29661 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-debuginfo-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-debuginfo-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-debuginfo-1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-2.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-debuginfo-1-2.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0862-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0862
Issue date: 2021-03-16

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel important security security impact kernel issues kpatch-patch kpatch patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1899804 - CVE-2020-28374 kernel: SCSI target (LIO) write to any block on ILO backstore

1906525 - CVE-2020-29661 kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free

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