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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2021:3768-01 Important Kernel Fix

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu releases security patches for kernel vulnerabilities affecting system stability. Ensure you install the updates promptly.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, 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: Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks (CVE-2021-22543)
* kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption (CVE-2021-37576)
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 Red Hat kernel update memory corruption important issue kpatch-patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22543 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37576 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-9.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-9.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-1-7.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-10.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_2-1-10.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_31_1-1-4.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_36_2-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_41_1-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_42_2-1-1.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_6_1-1-10.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-debuginfo-1-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-debuginfo-1-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-debuginfo-1-7.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-1-10.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_2_1-debuginfo-1-10.el7.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3768-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3768
Issue date: 2021-10-12

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat kernel update memory corruption important issue kpatch-patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1965461 - CVE-2021-22543 kernel: Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks

1986506 - CVE-2021-37576 kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

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