RHSA-2019:3217 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-alt security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 29, 2019
Updated · August 25, 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 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-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.
Security Fix(es):
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kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902)
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kernel: Use-after-free in __blk_drain_queue() function in block/blk-core.c (CVE-2018-20856)
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kernel: brcmfmac heap buffer overflow in brcmf_wowl_nd_results (CVE-2019-9500)
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hardware: bluetooth: BR/EDR encryption key negotiation attacks (KNOB) (CVE-2019-9506)
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kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c leading to DoS (CVE-2019-11810)
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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kernel modules pkey and paes_s390 are not available (BZ#1719192)
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pkey: Indicate old mkvp only if old and curr. mkvp are different (BZ#1720621)
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System dropped into Mon running softboots Exception: 501 (Hardware Interrupt) at c00000000000a814 replay_interrupt_return+0x0/0x4 (ipmi) (BZ#1737563)
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kernel: jump label transformation performance (BZ#1739143)
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Backport i40e MDD detection removal for PFs (BZ#1747618)