Synopsis

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended 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):

• kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket (CVE-2017-8824, Important)
• kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation (CVE-2017-13166, Important)
• kernel: Incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation (CVE-2017-9725, Moderate)
• kernel: Use-after-free in snd_seq_ioctl_create_port() (CVE-2017-15265, Moderate)
• kernel: Missing namespace check in net/netlink/af_netlink.c allows for network monitors to observe systemwide activity (CVE-2017-17449, Moderate)
• kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c (CVE-2017-18017, Moderate)
• kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ (CVE-2017-1000252, Moderate)
• kernel: Stack information leak in the EFS element (CVE-2017-1000410, Moderate)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Mohamed Ghannam for reporting CVE-2017-8824; Jan H. Schönherr (Amazon) for reporting CVE-2017-1000252; and Armis Labs for reporting CVE-2017-1000410.

Bug Fix(es):

These updated kernel packages include also numerous bug fixes. Space precludes documenting all of these bug fixes in this advisory. See the bug fix descriptions in the related Knowledge Article:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/3411331

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1489088 - CVE-2017-9725 kernel: Incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation
• BZ - 1490781 - CVE-2017-1000252 kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ
• BZ - 1501878 - CVE-2017-15265 kernel: Use-after-free in snd_seq_ioctl_create_port()
• BZ - 1519160 - CVE-2017-1000410 kernel: Stack information leak in the EFS element
• BZ - 1519591 - CVE-2017-8824 kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket
• BZ - 1525762 - CVE-2017-17449 kernel: Missing namespace check in net/netlink/af_netlink.c allows for network monitors to observe systemwide activity
• BZ - 1531135 - CVE-2017-18017 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
• BZ - 1548412 - CVE-2017-13166 kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2017-8824
• CVE-2017-9725
• CVE-2017-13166
• CVE-2017-15265
• CVE-2017-17449
• CVE-2017-18017
• CVE-2017-1000252
• CVE-2017-1000410

References