Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: net: bluetooth: type confusion while processing AMP packets (CVE-2020-12351)
• kernel: net: bluetooth: information leak when processing certain AMP packets (CVE-2020-12352)
• kernel: metadata validator in XFS may cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt (CVE-2020-14385)
• kernel: memory corruption in net/packet/af_packet.c leads to elevation of privilege (CVE-2020-14386)
• kernel: kernel: buffer over write in vgacon_scroll (CVE-2020-14331)

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):

• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.2.z Batch#4 source tree (BZ#1877921)

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 Real Time 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time - Telecommunications Update Service 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time - Telecommunications Update Service 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV - Telecommunications Update Service 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV - Telecommunications Update Service 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1858679 - CVE-2020-14331 kernel: kernel: buffer over write in vgacon_scroll
• BZ - 1874800 - CVE-2020-14385 kernel: metadata validator in XFS may cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt
• BZ - 1875699 - CVE-2020-14386 kernel: memory corruption in net/packet/af_packet.c leads to elevation of privilege
• BZ - 1886521 - CVE-2020-12351 kernel: net: bluetooth: type confusion while processing AMP packets
• BZ - 1886529 - CVE-2020-12352 kernel: net: bluetooth: information leak when processing certain AMP packets

CVEs

• CVE-2020-12351
• CVE-2020-12352
• CVE-2020-14331
• CVE-2020-14385
• CVE-2020-14386

References

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