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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2021-3381-01 Important Kpatch-Patch

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle unveiled a significant database-patch security fix to tackle urgent vulnerabilities within Oracle Linux 7.
An update 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: 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)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel patch important race condition Red Hat Enterprise out-of-bounds live patch

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-8.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-7.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-7.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-8.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-8.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_31_1-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_36_2-1-1.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-8.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-1-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160-debuginfo-1-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-debuginfo-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-debuginfo-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3381-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3381
Issue date: 2021-08-31

Topic

An update 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel patch important race condition Red Hat Enterprise out-of-bounds live patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

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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