Synopsis

Important: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 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):

• hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)
  
• hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)
  

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.

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 6.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1646768 - CVE-2018-12207 hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IPU)
• BZ - 1753062 - CVE-2019-11135 hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12207
• CVE-2019-11135

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ifu-page-mce
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/tsx-asynchronousabort

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6

SRPM
kernel-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: e95a1a6fb2782d21ff14c7612141be0b198483e9b3b6c4afea527a6684de419c
x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e2e542407232a6cff8b18a142c260f48d9ad0395775cfdbd8b8c628312530cdf
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a9e3b8d2104c25d71e3f1c2ab26b1f566b6e22c1206ac66799a3f67dfa3ca09d
kernel-debug-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8aacdf69e3df60c5db25feb9ccf2b2bc9a2d051949685dc906d7df08c082c24f
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a7285edaa5214f876a69ced80980793848eea42bd6e01add06d0e4e4773a04fa
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a7285edaa5214f876a69ced80980793848eea42bd6e01add06d0e4e4773a04fa
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 66ff58caa4ea1e3bb902b1c3838b051302031cb42f94410cb8089584f40e3c0d
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5b617fd54f97ee0aab9c6a2680f680f7d0ce565cbcd55cd4e253ebcb3807450c
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5b617fd54f97ee0aab9c6a2680f680f7d0ce565cbcd55cd4e253ebcb3807450c
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c6d9eb7375c5da9b1759b4838f888bd8cb8ee871390574f92db0453446926738
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c6d9eb7375c5da9b1759b4838f888bd8cb8ee871390574f92db0453446926738
kernel-devel-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1f52f3630049a09cca5d7b815d3685ab5dbc8576a523d181386e0af8ad7f2bf9
kernel-doc-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 63c1fe87b14c9d60b619a05328743df925b6c42ffd77a8da0e7d632a68d1106e
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 05cb02ea446528436c13bda27f215437e496e6758ed1f6edf50697f51615f397
kernel-headers-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1b757458380d68c6019e357aa8d80ea9089d3d51eb1dfb828b6b18ca52e3e3f7
perf-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1a71d6ab9e827a17d67d5d03c64ca582fea634615979cd429d1f1bb85ad16665
perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e51e784aaad8964c18d0d02a8b25065caca083a2650c184ee132503ce657c7f4
perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e51e784aaad8964c18d0d02a8b25065caca083a2650c184ee132503ce657c7f4
python-perf-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c2fdb89d61527c181f4ba8403ff13b5f5514b7ab93bb1b320d983bb03aca880f
python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ac7dcb52fbb2c7ef0f7efca6b39bc5091edee9a21cb081cfe8dd969605e70576
python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-504.81.3.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ac7dcb52fbb2c7ef0f7efca6b39bc5091edee9a21cb081cfe8dd969605e70576