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RedHat: RHSA-2021:2190-01 Important: Kernel-Rt DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The Kernel-rt upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 introduces essential security patches and improvements to overall system reliability.
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: use after free in eventpoll.c may lead to escalation of privilege (CVE-2020-0466)
* kernel: Integer overflow in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers (CVE-2020-12362)
* kernel: SCSI target (LIO) write to any block on ILO backstore (CVE-2020-28374)
* kernel: DoS by corrupting mountpoint reference counter (CVE-2020-12114)
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 latest RHEL-8.2.z9 Batch source tree (BZ#1949685)

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact importance kernel-rt

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-0466 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12114 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12362 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28374 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.src.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-core-4.18.0-193.56.1.rt13.106.el8_2.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2190-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2190
Issue date: 2021-06-01

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 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 DoS issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact importance 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

1848652 - CVE-2020-12114 kernel: DoS by corrupting mountpoint reference counter

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

1920480 - CVE-2020-0466 kernel: use after free in eventpoll.c may lead to escalation of privilege

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

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