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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2021-2725-01 Important Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial kernel patch from Red Hat tackles various vulnerabilities and errors, affecting systems running Enterprise Linux 7.
An update for kernel 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

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: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)
* kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan (CVE-2021-33034)
* kernel: use-after-free in show_numa_stats function (CVE-2019-20934)
* kernel: mishandles invalid descriptors in drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlink_cit.c (CVE-2020-11668)
* kernel: use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c (CVE-2021-33033)
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):
* [RHEL7.9.z] n_tty_open: "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request" (BZ#1872778)
* [ESXi][RHEL7.8]"qp_alloc_hypercall result = -20" / "Could not attach to queue pair with -20" with vSphere Fault Tolerance enabled (BZ#1892237)
* [RHEL7.9][s390x][Regression] Sino Nomine swapgen IBM z/VM emulated DASD with DIAG driver returns EOPNOTSUPP (BZ#1910395)
* False-positive hard lockup detected while processing the thread state information (SysRq-T) (BZ#1912221)
* RHEL7.9 zstream - s390x LPAR with NVMe SSD will panic when it has 32 or more IFL (pci) (BZ#1917943)
* The NMI watchdog detected a hard lockup while printing RCU CPU stall warning messages to the serial console (BZ#1924688)
* nvme hangs when trying to allocate reserved tag (BZ#1926825)
* [REGRESSION] "call into AER handling regardless of severity" triggersdo_recovery() unnecessarily on correctable PCIe errors (BZ#1933663)
* Module nvme_core: A double free of the kmalloc-512 cache between nvme_trans_log_temperature() and nvme_get_log_page(). (BZ#1946793)
* sctp - SCTP_CMD_TIMER_START queues active timer kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:1000! (BZ#1953052)
* [Hyper-V][RHEL-7]When CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is set, mainline commit 2a7f8c3b1d3fee is needed (BZ#1953075)
* Kernel panic at cgroup_is_descendant (BZ#1957719)
* [Hyper-V][RHEL-7]Commits To Fix Kdump Failures (BZ#1957803)
* IGMPv2 JOIN packets incorrectly routed to loopback (BZ#1958339)
* [CKI kernel builds]: x86 binaries in non-x86 kernel rpms breaks systemtap [7.9.z] (BZ#1960193)
* mlx4: Fix memory allocation in mlx4_buddy_init needed (BZ#1962406)
* incorrect assertion on pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock from pi_state_update_owner() (BZ#1965495)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20934 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11668 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33033 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33034 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33909 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-006

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: bpftool-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2725-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2021-07-20

Topic

An update for kernel 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1824792 - CVE-2020-11668 kernel: mishandles invalid descriptors in drivers/media/usb/gspca/xirlink_cit.c

1902788 - CVE-2019-20934 kernel: use-after-free in show_numa_stats function

1961300 - CVE-2021-33033 kernel: use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c

1961305 - CVE-2021-33034 kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan

1970273 - CVE-2021-33909 kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer

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