Issued:
2015-06-09
Updated:
2015-06-09

RHSA-2015:1082 - Important: kernel security update

Synopsis

Important: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

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

  • A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation handled authentication key reference counting during INIT collisions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-1421, Important)

  • It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O vector array overrun. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-1805, Important)

The CVE-2015-1421 issue was discovered by Sun Baoliang of Red Hat, and the security impact of the CVE-2015-1805 issue was discovered by Red Hat.

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS6.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-debug-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-doc-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.src.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • python-perf-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-firmware-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-220.63.2.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information