Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

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: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861)
• kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661)
• kernel: kvm: guest userspace to guest kernel write (CVE-2018-10853)
• kernel: TLB flush happens too late on mremap (CVE-2018-18281)
• 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):

• Hard lockup in free_one_page()->_raw_spin_lock() because sosreport command is reading from /proc/pagetypeinfo (BZ#1770730)

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 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1481136 - CVE-2017-10661 kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race
• BZ - 1563994 - CVE-2017-0861 kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation
• BZ - 1589890 - CVE-2018-10853 kernel: kvm: guest userspace to guest kernel write
• BZ - 1645121 - CVE-2018-18281 kernel: TLB flush happens too late on mremap
• 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

CVEs

• CVE-2017-0861
• CVE-2017-10661
• CVE-2018-10853
• CVE-2018-18281
• CVE-2019-11810
• CVE-2019-11811

References

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