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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 RHSA-2021:3523-01 Important Kpatch Update

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle's recent security advisory highlights significant vulnerabilities in Java SE 8. Immediate installation of the latest update is recommended.
An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 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

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: Use after free via PI futex state (CVE-2021-3347) * 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix important kernel Red Hat Enterprise security impact kpatch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3347 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 E4S (v. 7.7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_36_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_37_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_40_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_43_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_45_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_46_1-1-4.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_49_1-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_51_1-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_52_2-1-1.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_36_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_36_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_37_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_37_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_40_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_40_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_43_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_43_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_45_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_45_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_46_1-1-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_46_1-debuginfo-1-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_49_1-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_49_1-debuginfo-1-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3523-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3523
Issue date: 2021-09-14

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended UpdateSupport.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix important kernel Red Hat Enterprise security impact kpatch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server E4S (v. 7.7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1922249 - CVE-2021-3347 kernel: Use after free via PI futex state

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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