RHSA-2021:4404 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for kexec-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 kexec-tools packages contain the /sbin/kexec binary and utilities that together form the user-space component of the kernel's kexec feature. The /sbin/kexec binary facilitates a new kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a normal or a panic reboot. The kexec fastboot mechanism allows booting a Linux kernel from the context of an already running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

• kexec-tools: incorrect permissions on kdump dmesg file (CVE-2021-20269)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from 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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1892558 - kdump: provide a library API to export suggested crashkernel reservation values
• BZ - 1915819 - perror_exit call inside check_user_configured_target() function is not providing absolute path of dump location upon kdump service failure.
• BZ - 1918499 - kdump initrd generation fails if /boot not writable
• BZ - 1934261 - CVE-2021-20269 kexec-tools: incorrect permissions on kdump dmesg file
• BZ - 1965267 - [RHEL-8.5][ppc64le] makedumpfile failed to copy /proc/kcore that 'get_mm_sparsemem: Can't get the address of mem_section' or output nothing

CVEs

• CVE-2021-20269

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/