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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0215 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2017-01-31
Updated:
2017-01-31

RHSA-2017:0215 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

  • A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the kernel's socket recvmmsg subsystem. This may allow remote attackers to corrupt memory and may allow execution of arbitrary code. This corruption takes place during the error handling routines within __sys_recvmmsg() function. (CVE-2016-7117, Important)

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1382268 - CVE-2016-7117 kernel: Use-after-free in the recvmmsg exit path

CVEs

  • CVE-2016-7117

References

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.2

SRPM
kernel-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 07df2978dbd81ffe3f4f39d22e7a826f463961b65637a384d0f215e505a0990d
x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f92537433c197a02287c56214c6a5820b8b8a46efe9e8a735834c53540b99a86
kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c0458180baea7898a2fc407a8a0ea993b24fbdc6f6efe73e0da1bf1c424afed3
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cede42149a3c29d2f94905273841e3ce7ebc91f95944b9ab9630d8576035f004
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cede42149a3c29d2f94905273841e3ce7ebc91f95944b9ab9630d8576035f004
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daefdf3611f370473647fbd30d13df11ac2411955d94993e572c79c3f7204cbd
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 046fb35c928bccabb702e4689a701b10bfebe8ea040eb0109ec0d122c73b506d
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 046fb35c928bccabb702e4689a701b10bfebe8ea040eb0109ec0d122c73b506d
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9aa7235b67866aa70c089ea3571ee619927b3228204b8f9d0e61d2526c8c4e70
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9aa7235b67866aa70c089ea3571ee619927b3228204b8f9d0e61d2526c8c4e70
kernel-devel-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: da1b81781ff5d28e82d6e4402fe338e9a3854cb9f185ae255c74e0500092b549
kernel-doc-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 5375457db139efcf9703ed590ff5eebf3df2a23e01f92744b91fe3f2d1502a7c
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d72f8ed345bebc2be3bf3f041fc4185284830476de6d46ffcf3b4ea5048a36d7
kernel-headers-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 16722b5370cd2e9e27cb03167ed866ac4dad89499fce363f843969677f30adf8
perf-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b2f2844d3aa4f2e71874db0144bebc170324fc3c64ad31bd77763f85580659c9
perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd58a6cefa6b3ff98475bdf93f17811e6ca3c0655490b37b1b793217b4af503d
perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd58a6cefa6b3ff98475bdf93f17811e6ca3c0655490b37b1b793217b4af503d
python-perf-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79eeefec162fef9015747949a2e3bd78d78ef136be8d84cc8b5518c021fb7eb0
python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7dc68c2f424e69e16ed46bae3288e5f5d953fc05daed90aee9b326bd19a6e051
python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.69.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7dc68c2f424e69e16ed46bae3288e5f5d953fc05daed90aee9b326bd19a6e051

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