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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2021-4798-02 Important kpatch Patch

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant kpatch-patch security update from Red Hat has been released to resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities within the kernel.
An update for kpatch-patch 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: use-after-free in drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c ctx use-after-free (CVE-2020-36385)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux use-after-free kpatch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36385 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_1-1-10.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-10.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-1-8.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-1-6.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-1-6.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_31_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_36_2-1-4.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_41_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_42_2-1-2.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_45_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-1-10.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_11_1-debuginfo-1-10.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-1-10.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_15_2-debuginfo-1-10.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-1-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_21_1-debuginfo-1-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_24_1-debuginfo-1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_25_1-debuginfo-1-6.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_31_1-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_31_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.ppc64le.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_36_2-1-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4798-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4798
Issue date: 2021-11-23

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory kernel patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux use-after-free kpatch

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1974319 - CVE-2020-36385 kernel: use-after-free in drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c ctx use-after-free

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