RHSA-2018:2748 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 26, 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.

Security Fix(es):

kernel: Integer overflow in Linux's create_elf_tables function (CVE-2018-14634)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

Bug Fix(es):

These updated kernel packages include also numerous bug fixes. Space precludes documenting all of the bug fixes in this advisory. See the descriptions in the related Knowledge Article:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3588731

Related CVEs

CVE-2018-14634 ↗