Synopsis

Important: kernel-alt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

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

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-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow (CVE-2019-17666)
• kernel: nfs: NULL pointer dereference due to an anomalized NFS message sequence (CVE-2018-16871)
• kernel: Heap address information leak while using L2CAP_GET_CONF_OPT (CVE-2019-3459)
• kernel: Heap address information leak while using L2CAP_PARSE_CONF_RSP (CVE-2019-3460)
• kernel: sensitive information disclosure from kernel stack memory via HIDPCONNADD command (CVE-2019-11884)
• kernel: powerpc: local user can read vector registers of other users' processes via a Facility Unavailable exception (CVE-2019-15030)
• kernel: memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-15916)
• kernel: integer overflow in tcp_ack_update_rtt in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c (CVE-2019-18805)

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):

• lpfc: NVMe/FC target test machine rhel-storage-62 crashes on boot when connected to FC switch (BZ#1623205)
• kernel BUG at fs/nfs_common/grace.c:107! (BZ#1637543)
• RHEL-Alt-7.6 - Need a fix for kernel bug cap_inode_getsecurity: use d_find_any_alias() instead of d_find_alias() (BZ#1711934)
• Backport "fs/dcache.c: add cond_resched() in shrink_dentry_list()" (32785c0539b7) [rhel-alt-7.6.z] (BZ#1758861)
• [RHEL-ALT-7.6.z][arm64] iommu/iova: Fix tracking of recently failed iova address (BZ#1780500)

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 ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1655162 - CVE-2018-16871 kernel: nfs: NULL pointer dereference due to an anomalized NFS message sequence
• BZ - 1663176 - CVE-2019-3459 kernel: Heap address information leak while using L2CAP_GET_CONF_OPT
• BZ - 1663179 - CVE-2019-3460 kernel: Heap address information leak while using L2CAP_PARSE_CONF_RSP
• BZ - 1709837 - CVE-2019-11884 kernel: sensitive information disclosure from kernel stack memory via HIDPCONNADD command
• BZ - 1750813 - CVE-2019-15916 kernel: memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c leads to denial of service
• BZ - 1759313 - CVE-2019-15030 kernel: powerpc: local user can read vector registers of other users' processes via a Facility Unavailable exception
• BZ - 1763690 - CVE-2019-17666 kernel: rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow
• BZ - 1771496 - CVE-2019-18805 kernel: integer overflow in tcp_ack_update_rtt in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

CVEs

• CVE-2018-16871
• CVE-2019-3459
• CVE-2019-3460
• CVE-2019-11884
• CVE-2019-15030
• CVE-2019-15916
• CVE-2019-17666
• CVE-2019-18805

References