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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2021-3327 Important Kernel Update

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential kernel security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux featuring crucial bug resolutions and various CVE vulnerabilities addressed.
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: out-of-bounds write in xt_compat_target_from_user() in net/netfilter/x_tables.c (CVE-2021-22555)
* kernel: race condition for removal of the HCI controller (CVE-2021-32399)
* kernel: powerpc: RTAS calls can be used to compromise kernel integrity (CVE-2020-27777)
* kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation (CVE-2021-29154)
* kernel: lack a full memory barrier upon the assignment of a new table value in net/netfilter/x_tables.c and include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h may lead to DoS (CVE-2021-29650)
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):
* SAN Switch rebooted and caused (?) OpenStack compute node to reboot (BZ#1897576)
* sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/mdio_bus/ixgbe-8100 (BZ#1915449)
* XFS: read-only recovery does not update free space accounting in superblock (BZ#1921551)
* The memcg_params field of kmem_cache struct contains an old slab address that is to small for the current size of memcg_limited_groups_array_size. (BZ#1951810)
* Backport of upstream patch "net: Update window_clamp if SOCK_RCVBUF is set " into rhel-7 (BZ#1962196)
* Kernel panic in init_cq_frag_buf (BZ#1962499)
* futex: futex_requeue can potentially free the pi_state structure twice (BZ#1966856)
* be_poll lockup doing ifenslave when netconsole using bond (BZ#1971744)
* OCP4.7 nodes panic at BUG_ON in nf_nat_setup_info() (BZ#1972970)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27777 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22555 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29154 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29650 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-32399 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: kernel-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: bpftool-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: bpftool-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3327-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2021-08-31

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

1897576 - SAN Switch rebooted and caused (?) OpenStack compute node to reboot

1900844 - CVE-2020-27777 kernel: powerpc: RTAS calls can be used to compromise kernel integrity

1945388 - CVE-2021-29650 kernel: lack a full memory barrier upon the assignment of a new table value in net/netfilter/x_tables.c and include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h may lead to DoS

1946684 - CVE-2021-29154 kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation

1970807 - CVE-2021-32399 kernel: race condition for removal of the HCI controller

1980101 - CVE-2021-22555 kernel: out-of-bounds write in xt_compat_target_from_user() in net/netfilter/x_tables.c

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