RHSA-2019:2600 — Security Advisory

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.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125)

• kernel: brcmfmac heap buffer overflow in brcmf_wowl_nd_results (CVE-2019-9500)

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):

• [mlx4] VXLAN over VLAN TCP segmentation (BZ#1734333)

• Race condition in /dev/sg due to missing synchronization causes corruption in RHV (BZ#1737380)

• panic handing smb2_reconnect due to a use after free (BZ#1737382)

• NFSv4.1 client stuck in infinite loop when received NFS4ERR_SEQ_MISORDERED error (BZ#1739077)

• Backport TCP follow-up for small buffers (BZ#1739130)