RHSA-2021:2731 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)
• kernel: Use after free via PI futex state (CVE-2021-3347)
• kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan (CVE-2021-33034)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1922249 - CVE-2021-3347 kernel: Use after free via PI futex state
• BZ - 1961305 - CVE-2021-33034 kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan
• BZ - 1970273 - CVE-2021-33909 kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3347
• CVE-2021-33034
• CVE-2021-33909

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-006