RHSA-2018:0395 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · March 7, 2018
Updated · June 30, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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.
These updated kernel packages include several security issues and numerous bug fixes, some of which you can see below. Space precludes documenting all of these bug fixes in this advisory. To see the complete list of bug fixes, users are directed to the related Knowledge Article: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3368501.
Security Fix(es):
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Kernel: KVM: MMU potential stack buffer overrun during page walks (CVE-2017-12188, Important)
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Kernel: KVM: debug exception via syscall emulation (CVE-2017-7518, Moderate)
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.