Issued:
2020-09-22
Updated:
2020-09-22

RHSA-2020:3810 - Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120)

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):

  • update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 realtime-kernel sources (BZ#1863050)

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
MRG Realtime2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.src.rpm
  • kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-693.76.1.rt56.676.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information