RHSA-2020:2289 — Security Advisory

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 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: double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c (CVE-2017-18595)

• kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie function in marvell/mwifiex/scan.c (CVE-2019-3846)

• kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c (CVE-2019-10126)

• kernel: use-after-free in __blk_add_trace in kernel/trace/blktrace.c (CVE-2019-19768)

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

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):

• Observed a memory leak while using dm-multipath (BZ#1812935)

• Backport: Guest microcode version mismatch on secondary processors (BZ#1814001)

• dm-multipath high load backport incorrect (BZ#1814533)

• ixgbe reports "Detected Tx Unit Hang" with adapter reset on RHEL 7 (BZ#1816990)

• RHEL7: block mq hang of a blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait(), which waits for a zero of a q_usage_counter, which never happens (BZ#1824543)