Synopsis

Moderate: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: error in exception handling leads to DoS (CVE-2018-8897)
  

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 Nick Peterson (Everdox Tech LLC) and Andy Lutomirski for reporting this issue.

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 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1567074 - CVE-2018-8897 Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2018-8897

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/pop_ss

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9

SRPM
kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 6c0c745e5f995e39c11c60b4f513b30b6a4d38aab108a37a1a285191804565bc
x86_64
kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 3a68a8eb398e50a403b6c644e2d3b7f3e2fbf0c3b275c0a972278c92acf2cfc2
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 674bc9ace9b08e042e0a8544f67341e6e99ceaa608117c21b06c45f89b8c5dc4
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 9195c30f09bab1595413b5c176141c243e3b675151b9b717bb049e6a717f7704
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 17f4449384bce6f2f8a145b1ed1a137effa1a62cccc056f78ceb74ae2d131b34
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 3281e5c1290d13a27dae074e275eadb65c667bfa4200fd2d69928947bedcd992
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 204f9ac8dddd9129b313f8572c7b9546f04a079dc2ed70c62f2702148689ac31
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: b9c31c0f2a71ad5c45d7f6920433657c20e7b975c9c8b3002710d330e3d8c40f
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b7fd1f766f08de28c13b276e2bce285a6811ebeedb61d8cc81e64de4a8d4b971
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 808bd250e8d197022cde7004a66a040156a15a022bb2e8e86ede143d9f04faff
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 2d25718866d1fb98e0bf1a2671dcba55daa73205924bc6916563cbe96ab06500
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 9ced4eb50f7f5de65292d55cdfec974e963ff688ec0cdd56a6ca8fa2bb118ff2
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 831a5d2b949be1181418d8297ad80ebc5d8db570dbd3c456e978bd02044b6953
ia64
kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 4f1eba64759e47b1199d38dd5e35ad0c7d5fde734d875e2c3cc30e8450b25052
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: ecf8dadc73dcf80def66897742fe415ef04c2ddc85e9219607ec32b40155007f
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: ca4151cbdc1ad2693ad309ac3d8be639106582913b0f644001ff562b85d3a353
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: fd750e703fdd8ca991213169aec550c8912e6fdf53543be96b56572a970d7659
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: e732298b47ecfedb51e96630d38a99a9f0180f3d2bde775df7d14bd3238cad41
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 121a9a5adc7ad98a98dfa5a2f2a28a4cd2f4e67286370f63016f1e939aea742b
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: b5b84867e1055c7d5cc05980860058e86a2595b61665fae2c0c24bdf78391282
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b7fd1f766f08de28c13b276e2bce285a6811ebeedb61d8cc81e64de4a8d4b971
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 8106a576950003a01d76f1a7c3e058f0da114515577899b76ab167402698a8d2
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: b0780ae756136fc3c845cf0ef3117af9a65eb28d3a2f4f98f9c12890fdc2dd40
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 2af8418e84b438646a8f8827f1ec368acea09b5f8818ea6a54d028abb731eee9
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 9171660426f54f931a7720b0e41425bd98640cad58e259fbb31410366ec7b590
i386
kernel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 6b44ef927e0593009916bf70998e6aa22c722fbde876fc8d9e58205a3acdd182
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 23e4312ef998b86706fe46c5bb2c6903f1efaa7bf4183441c22e4691abdcc4a1
kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 7d4cf0753108ac767c6def6791834e305a1c2ca0a3e388322088ead416671534
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 38f1b8deacb34e489c554792cfe891c6d247b4a980a519e5ac3df8bf70a2a48f
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ee6add68d2406be1b8873630723e3682ab4ecce6e50a6cc469bf6be2b4d033c4
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ccec2ee11a97bd5d01b89638a2c0d982367518d31b739339334a0fb14f41a76b
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 30e23eb4555c2ba89fdd44f69c89a78fb4cd05844dce136afd2bf9059e21693c
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 1444c261dd81b0b42c0e82bffaed8e0b137f8d87fe72a321b09afa90dd60c899
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 594ed6a3ca1ff6563c634190fa546df24130d2ef359e76561ac5af5203afe3b1
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 6bae49b62b58b216951b24f33e7b2fad7a6950362f9f2fa2f837be01806198b5
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b7fd1f766f08de28c13b276e2bce285a6811ebeedb61d8cc81e64de4a8d4b971
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f1f8a9c29d492fa39080b489d76c47e7e254cd0ef0bc58da05c651066c3f85d0
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: f8bde6b28326dca4fcf6f2630ea04f1022c30ecb6feb4f743c045617e47395a1
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 36454b4f7e86a4153dd714ee99b86a7deecd31e730fefbdefa7c49463f7aa2a8
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.39.2.el5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: c9473b62d82357256fa5360b3eb320e715d4591771f48773ef78788e925db5e1