RHSA-2019:1350 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-alt security and bug fix update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · June 5, 2019
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.
Security Fix(es):
- kernel: NULL pointer dereference in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c (CVE-2018-13095)
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):
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[rhel-alt] Could not remove the function from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events (BZ#1677171)
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RHEL-ALT-7.6z: usage of stale vma in do_fault() can lead to a crash (BZ#1679243)
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RHEL-Alt-7.6 - Backport support for software count cache flush Spectre v2 mitigation (BZ#1692682)
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RHEL-Alt-7.6 - [LTC Test][SR-IOV]: Guest with VF pass-through crashes during reboot operation in a loop. (kvm) (libvirt/kernel) (BZ#1693146)
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RHEL-Alt-7.6 - Tolerate new s390x crypto hardware for migration (BZ#1695643)