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An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: insufficient input validation in kernel mode driver in Intel i915 graphics leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2019-11085)
• kernel: DMA attack using peripheral devices (Thunderclap) (BZ#1690716)
• kernel: infinite loop in update_blocked_averages() in kernel/sched/fair.c leading to denial of service (CVE-2018-20784)
• kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c leading to DoS (CVE-2019-11810)
• kernel: use-after-free in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c, ipmi_si_mem_io.c, ipmi_si_port_io.c (CVE-2019-11811)

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

Bug Fix(es):

• [DELL 8.0 z-stream BUG] - "CPU unsupported" message with CFL-H/S 8+2 due to updated Stepping (BZ#1711048)
• RHEL8.0 Snapshot4 - [LTC Test] Guest crashes during vfio device hot-plug/un-plug operations. (kvm) (BZ#1714746)
• Using Transactional Memory (TM) in a Guest Locks-up Host Core on a Power9 System (BZ#1714751)
• VRSAVE register not properly saved and restored (BZ#1714753)
• Fix potential spectre gadget in arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c (BZ#1714754)
• RHEL8.0 RC2 - kernel/KVM - count cache flush Spectre v2 mitigation (required for POWER9 DD2.3) (BZ#1715018)
• iommu/amd: Set exclusion range correctly (BZ#1715336)
• RHEL8.0 - sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation (BZ#1715337)
• cross compile builds are broken (BZ#1715339)
• Patch generated by 'make rh-test-patch' doesn't get applied during build (BZ#1715340)
• hard lockup panic in during execution of CFS bandwidth period timer (BZ#1715345)
• perf annotate -P does not give full paths (BZ#1716887)
• [Dell EMC 8.0 BUG] File system corrupting with I/O Stress on H330 PERC on AMD Systems if IOMMU passthrough is disabled (BZ#1717344)
• Fix Spectre v1 gadgets in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c and drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c (BZ#1717382)
• BUG: SELinux doesn't handle NFS crossmnt well (BZ#1717777)
• krb5{,i,p} doesn't work with older enctypes on aarch64 (BZ#1717800)
• [RHEL-8.0][s390x]ltp-lite mtest06 testing hits EWD due to: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU (BZ#1717801)
• RHEL 8 Snapshot-6: CN1200E SW iSCSI I/O performance degradation after a SCSI device/target reset rhel-8.0.0.z] (BZ#1717804)
• dm cache metadata: Fix loading discard bitset (BZ#1717868)
• jit'd java code on power9 ppc64le experiences stack corruption (BZ#1717869)
• BUG: connect(AF_UNSPEC, ...) on a connected socket returns an error (BZ#1717870)
• mm: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000057ac6e9d (BZ#1718237)
• [HPE 8.0 BUG] DCPMM fsdax boot initialization takes a long time causing auto-mount to fail (BZ#1719635)
• AMD Rome: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c:1510 mcheck_cpu_init+0x7a/0x460 (BZ#1721233)
• [RHEL8.1] AMD Rome: EDAC amd64: Error: F0 not found, device 0x1460 (broken BIOS?) (BZ#1722365)
• AMD Rome: Intermittent NMI received for unknown reason (BZ#1722367)
• [DELL 8.0 BUG] - "CPU unsupported" message with WHL-U due to updated Stepping (BZ#1722372)

Enhancement(s):

• RHEL 8 - AMD Rome Support (BZ#1721972)

Users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1680540 - CVE-2018-20784 kernel: infinite loop in update_blocked_averages() in kernel/sched/fair.c leading to denial of service
• BZ - 1690716 - kernel: DMA attack using peripheral devices (Thunderclap)
• BZ - 1709164 - CVE-2019-11810 kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c leading to DoS
• BZ - 1709180 - CVE-2019-11811 kernel: use-after-free in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c, ipmi_si_mem_io.c, ipmi_si_port_io.c
• BZ - 1710405 - CVE-2019-11085 kernel: insufficient input validation in kernel mode driver in Intel i915 graphics leads to privilege escalation

CVEs

• CVE-2018-20784
• CVE-2019-11085
• CVE-2019-11810
• CVE-2019-11811

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important