RHSA-2019:4168-01: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

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A kernel security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6



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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:4168-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4168
Issue date: 2019-12-10
CVE Names: CVE-2019-9500
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1. Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
Extended 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64

3. Description:

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: brcmfmac heap buffer overflow in brcmf_wowl_nd_results
(CVE-2019-9500)

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):

* [HPEMC 7.7 BUG] Protect against concurrent calls into UV BIOS
(BZ#1720367)

* A cluster node has multiple hung "mv" processes that are accessing a gfs2
filesystem. (BZ#1721911)

* alua messages flooding serial console leading to cluster failover delays
(BZ#1754849)

* kernel build: parallelize redhat/mod-sign.sh (BZ#1755329)

* kernel build: speed up module compression step (BZ#1755338)

* Nested VirtualBox VMs on Windows guest has the potential of impacting
memory region allocated to other KVM guests (BZ#1755782)

* [Intel 7.8 Bug] [KVM][CLX] CPUID_7_0_EDX_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is not enabled
in VM. (BZ#1757756)

* OS getting restarted because of driver issue with QLogic Corp.
ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA [1077:2532] (rev 02).
(BZ#1759446)

* patchset for x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() (BZ#1772810)

4. 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.

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1701224 - CVE-2019-9500 kernel: brcmfmac heap buffer overflow in brcmf_wowl_nd_results

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6):

Source:
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):

x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):

Source:
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm

ppc64:
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm

ppc64le:
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6):

ppc64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm

ppc64le:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9500
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2019 Red Hat, Inc.

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