RHSA-2020:2285 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 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: double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c (CVE-2017-18595)
• kernel: use-after-free in __blk_add_trace in kernel/trace/blktrace.c (CVE-2019-19768)
• Kernel: NetLabel: null pointer dereference while receiving CIPSO packet with null category may cause kernel panic (CVE-2020-10711)

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 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1758671 - CVE-2017-18595 kernel: double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c
• BZ - 1786164 - CVE-2019-19768 kernel: use-after-free in __blk_add_trace in kernel/trace/blktrace.c
• BZ - 1825116 - CVE-2020-10711 Kernel: NetLabel: null pointer dereference while receiving CIPSO packet with null category may cause kernel panic

CVEs

• CVE-2017-18595
• CVE-2019-19768
• CVE-2020-10711

References

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