RHEA-2017:3178 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for crash is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The crash packages provide the core analysis suite, which is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate live systems, as well as kernel core dumps created by the kexec-tools packages or the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

This enhancement update adds the crash packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for ARM and for IBM Power LE (POWER9).

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1483934 - [Pegas] crash: crash cmd reports "WARNING: cannot access vmalloc'd module memory"

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158511