RHSA-2020:1493 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-alt security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
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Published · April 16, 2020
Updated · October 9, 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: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c (CVE-2019-14895)
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kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c (CVE-2019-14901)
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kernel: triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed can lead to DoS (CVE-2019-5108)
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kernel: powerpc: local user can read vector registers of other users' processes via an interrupt (CVE-2019-15031)
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kernel: out-of-bounds array access in __xfrm_policy_unlink (CVE-2019-15666)
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kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/usb.c leads to a crash (CVE-2019-15099)
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kernel: when cpu.cfs_quota_us is used allows attackers to cause a denial of service against non-cpu-bound applications (CVE-2019-19922)
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kernel: Null pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c (CVE-2019-20054)
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kernel: memory leak in mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c (CVE-2019-20095)
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):
- rhel-alt-76z bsd process accounting(acct(2)) does not work (BZ#1763618)