RHSA-2019:3936 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 22, 2019
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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
This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.
Security Fix(es):
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hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)
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hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)