Issued:
2017-06-19
Updated:
2017-06-19

RHSA-2017:1482 - Important: kernel security update

Synopsis

Important: kernel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle 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.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

  • A flaw was found in the way memory was being allocated on the stack for user space binaries. If heap (or different memory region) and stack memory regions were adjacent to each other, an attacker could use this flaw to jump over the stack guard gap, cause controlled memory corruption on process stack or the adjacent memory region, and thus increase their privileges on the system. This is a kernel-side mitigation which increases the stack guard gap size from one page to 1 MiB to make successful exploitation of this issue more difficult. (CVE-2017-1000364, Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting this issue.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)5s390x

Updated Packages

  • kernel-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-doc-2.6.18-420.el5.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-xen-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.18-420.el5.i386.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-kdump-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-xen-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-PAE-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.18-420.el5.src.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-420.el5.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.18-420.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.18-420.el5.i686.rpm

Fixes

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References

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