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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:4056 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2019-12-03
Updated:
2019-12-03

RHSA-2019:4056 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 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):

  • kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning (CVE-2018-9568)
  • Kernel: page cache side channel attacks (CVE-2019-5489)

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 6.5 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1655904 - CVE-2018-9568 kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning
  • BZ - 1664110 - CVE-2019-5489 Kernel: page cache side channel attacks

CVEs

  • CVE-2018-9568
  • CVE-2019-5489

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5

SRPM
kernel-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 53b4d70d7d6cbd548066c6480cf1d0bc1afc74c998b1217e6873774463e8a2d7
x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 57fad314673fc8a5762add74c6a8698e12a8e4c5260ffe8dc7022959bf6205c0
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 8f6b80d77c5f0fd4b3ba01f91a94548356160e06985a56b6aad270f49c94b64b
kernel-debug-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5ba62facb5be983d3f2d8553cf90d19f6ee8ab2632c056ae453222211791704f
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 070f5a6a6dffb19cc4eec9e38a2ecc5ec777a87a18181c7fb1bbd10e683a6769
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 070f5a6a6dffb19cc4eec9e38a2ecc5ec777a87a18181c7fb1bbd10e683a6769
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e0cca1d81819d80cee0c5aa3e86daa27b1897bd74041c3a1c569e6abef35dc8f
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 11fb4e39acfe21e4c988d0acc52cb3edb528410c217c73f30cc13de26deba861
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 11fb4e39acfe21e4c988d0acc52cb3edb528410c217c73f30cc13de26deba861
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d6474f4308d83d380699d3d0f7843c954cda3db3901c9a69888988f8bf25c642
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d6474f4308d83d380699d3d0f7843c954cda3db3901c9a69888988f8bf25c642
kernel-devel-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 3da0c777cbef360383920bfecf2132f304d4833e9d2408574eeb56aae6b13a3f
kernel-doc-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 46d18f30fee82014d6705ce3399603850ee3855e30a8f1336dc8c0a0ee7a95a7
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: db18d03c1e465935047bdc4f5535218fc9b669ba6c58889a7ed10af77531b410
kernel-headers-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c40d34970c33ae7df9c0faf64f88af1b18f00b1a23ebd94bf65ed383af8d08cf
perf-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dea88a862b6fcda479435ab10c9fe6193280a88ef6598f22ba24f11a02f77538
perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fd6be2180e46d97ac5662ad668143adb275203ff4efb2b6f84197bc78c5c42f1
perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fd6be2180e46d97ac5662ad668143adb275203ff4efb2b6f84197bc78c5c42f1
python-perf-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b4c1eb6fe57d55d8c2347e9824eb1abe01b788c7f3bf3dc4ac5b94ffc5c6b12c
python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 04cc48a997bd72c76700c63e1f5ce848ab3174ec779cf6aac80ebdf9883fd6dc
python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.97.1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 04cc48a997bd72c76700c63e1f5ce848ab3174ec779cf6aac80ebdf9883fd6dc

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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