Synopsis

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: stack-based buffer overflow in chap_server_compute_md5() in iscsi target (CVE-2018-14633)
• kernel: NULL pointer dereference in af_netlink.c:__netlink_ns_capable() allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-14646)

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 Vincent Pelletier for reporting CVE-2018-14633 and Christian Brauner for reporting CVE-2018-14646.

Bug Fix(es):

• The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the 3.10.0-957.1.2 source tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1632386)

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 Real Time 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1626035 - CVE-2018-14633 kernel: stack-based buffer overflow in chap_server_compute_md5() in iscsi target
• BZ - 1630124 - CVE-2018-14646 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in af_netlink.c:__netlink_ns_capable() allows for denial of service
• BZ - 1632386 - kernel-rt: update to the RHEL7.6.z batch#1 source tree

CVEs

• CVE-2018-14633
• CVE-2018-14646

References