Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2021-1620-01 Important Firmware Update

red hat
Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial software upgrade for Red Hat, focusing on a vital correction for linux-firmware combined with improvements.
An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: Integer overflow in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers (CVE-2020-12362)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix kernel security Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel Intel integer overflow security impact firmware update linux-firmware

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12362 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: linux-firmware-20201218-102.git05789708.el8.src.rpm
noarch: iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl2030-firmware-18.168.6.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl3160-firmware-25.30.13.0-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl6000g2a-firmware-18.168.6.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl6000g2b-firmware-18.168.6.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm iwl7260-firmware-25.30.13.0-102.el8.1.noarch.rpm libertas-sd8686-firmware-20201218-102.git05789708.el8.noarch.rpm libertas-sd8787-firmware-20201218-102.git05789708.el8.noarch.rpm libertas-usb8388-firmware-20201218-102.git05789708.el8.noarch.rpm libertas-usb8388-olpc-firmware-20201218-102.git05789708.el8.noarch.rpm linux-firmware-20201218-102.git05789708.el8.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1620-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1620
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.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 Red Hat bug fix kernel security Red Hat Enterprise Linux important kernel Intel integer overflow security impact firmware update linux-firmware

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1918613 - update to latest upstream release for 8.4 Beta

1930246 - CVE-2020-12362 kernel: Integer overflow in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here