RHSA-2020:1266 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

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: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver (CVE-2019-14816)

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):

• Slow console output with ast (Aspeed) graphics driver (BZ#1780145)

• core: backports from upstream (BZ#1794373)

• System Crash on vport creation (NPIV on FCoE) (BZ#1796362)

• [GSS] Can't access the mount point due to possible blocking of i/o on rbd (BZ#1796432)