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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1150 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2012-08-08
Updated:
2012-08-08

RHSA-2012:1150 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues:

  • A memory leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory

subsystem handled resource clean up in the mmap() failure path when the
MAP_HUGETLB flag was set. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2390, Moderate)

  • A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Event Poll (epoll)

subsystem handled resource clean up when an ELOOP error code was returned.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2012-3375, Moderate)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

  • The MRG 2.1 realtime kernel lacked support for automatic memory

reservation for the kdump kernel, as present in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
kernels. Using the parameter crashkernel=auto on the kernel boot command
line led to kdump being disabled because no memory was correctly reserved.
Support for crashkernel=auto has been implemented in the 3.0 realtime
kernel and now when the crashkernel=auto parameter is specified, machines
with more than 4GB of RAM have the amount of memory required by the kdump
kernel calculated and reserved. (BZ#820427)

  • The current bnx2x driver in the MRG 2.1 realtime kernel had faulty

support for the network adapter PCI ID 14e4:168e and did not work
correctly. The bnx2x driver was updated to include support for this network
adapter. (BZ#839037)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which upgrade the kernel-rt
kernel to version kernel-rt-3.0.36-rt57, and correct these issues. The
system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

To install kernel packages manually, use "rpm -ivh [package]". Do not
use "rpm -Uvh" as that will remove the running kernel binaries from
your system. You may use "rpm -e" to remove old kernels after
determining that the new kernel functions properly on your system.

Affected Products

  • MRG Realtime 2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 824345 - CVE-2012-2390 kernel: huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure
  • BZ - 837502 - CVE-2012-3375 kernel: epoll: can leak file descriptors when returning -ELOOP

CVEs

  • CVE-2012-3375
  • CVE-2012-2390

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

MRG Realtime 2

SRPM
kernel-rt-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.src.rpm SHA-256: f549dfc4d9c9620506bdbc9302479225586b90a21d1f0e4748f91e9d7b58ab06
x86_64
kernel-rt-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4eee595a0b3bcb041630fcffe496d7642b15682c7941f2a66fe4d0dc15f4a9e
kernel-rt-debug-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1768b6e8eadf2a544bab030c0d89b225bf892a4586e921d2eaa09b36fb50ced5
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0dc8b4a26c9c13b448cee060254192cb62ab67e227d001b13039e178f8bc6b7f
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f594f991c46353a1e636e9611692b4248a14717df18787945c7a38725399f786
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: eff474fb4b3b265273fd0d33e1fd5327533cdcbde723c8482ae96a6168eecc99
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9207a7a0e42ac0070156c459bd03de8950cea5966c6a2ef92d16fc371726be82
kernel-rt-devel-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e5db57c6090c67945a5002c22fc5bb4ed1f9bf3aa61c67ff164ea9287d4af4c6
kernel-rt-doc-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 1f43e5e1564561b2aa3b0f7cc48340633ca2397601592315bfcf450a8aa48314
kernel-rt-firmware-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7b73797962daa711db00578e60e8d65334091bf01a74e0041266ccc6ed8519b4
kernel-rt-trace-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1f702a9604b68f377a5bba8a5ab07dd23804c0b14945d10f32286e569cca14f7
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9e9390c58d933bc1f672df8e8f70c7d568127fd400134c8883e96927b4ce75d3
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3986e0760f78532b69c8cbc328f5df679155d17cf8748688248daae2dfa1d1d1
kernel-rt-vanilla-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bab24d4e383848a729f73c13a207d1e14676dd1bb32d1f620d260a600fa8a14c
kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e21bddb987545c2b36a5be8ba3dca0886a961a3710a0855d4e6494df2c7440df
kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.0.36-rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 84fe99b1fda27c2d46d072f96ccea69cf23ceeb54e70f10f53916c28eed885a5

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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