RHSA-2020:2171 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 15, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for kernel-rt 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

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

  • Kernel: NetLabel: null pointer dereference while receiving CIPSO packet with null category may cause kernel panic (CVE-2020-10711)

  • Kernel: kvm: nVMX: L2 guest may trick the L0 hypervisor to access sensitive L1 resources (CVE-2020-2732)

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):

  • kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-8.2.z source tree (BZ#1831781)

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:2171 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update | PulseLinux