Issued:
2017-09-12
Updated:
2017-09-12

RHSA-2017:2681 - 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 6.

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 stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Bluetooth subsystem of the Linux kernel processed pending L2CAP configuration responses from a client. On systems with the stack protection feature enabled in the kernel (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y, which is enabled on all architectures other than s390x and ppc64[le]), an unauthenticated attacker able to initiate a connection to a system via Bluetooth could use this flaw to crash the system. Due to the nature of the stack protection feature, code execution cannot be fully ruled out, although we believe it is unlikely. On systems without the stack protection feature (ppc64[le]; the Bluetooth modules are not built on s390x), an unauthenticated attacker able to initiate a connection to a system via Bluetooth could use this flaw to remotely execute arbitrary code on the system with ring 0 (kernel) privileges. (CVE-2017-1000251, Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Armis 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 Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • python-perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-doc-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.noarch.rpm
  • python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-bootwrapper-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • python-perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • python-perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-debug-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.src.rpm
  • kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.noarch.rpm
  • python-perf-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.i686.rpm
  • kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • kernel-kdump-2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.s390x.rpm

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