Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20191480
Revision Date:2019-06-17Version:639
Title:RHSA-2019:1480: kernel-rt security and bug fix update (Important)
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):

  • An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) segments. While processing SACK segments, the Linux kernel's socket buffer (SKB) data structure becomes fragmented. Each fragment is about TCP maximum segment size (MSS) bytes. To efficiently process SACK blocks, the Linux kernel merges multiple fragmented SKBs into one, potentially overflowing the variable holding the number of segments. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the Linux kernel by sending a crafted sequence of SACK segments on a TCP connection with small value of TCP MSS, resulting in a denial of service (DoS). (CVE-2019-11477)

  • kernel: lack of check for mmap minimum address in expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c leads to NULL pointer dereferences exploit on non-SMAP platforms (CVE-2019-9213)

  • Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption while processing SACK blocks allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11478)

  • Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption for TCP connections with low MSS allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11479)

    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 to the RHEL8.0.z batch#1 source tree (BZ#1704955)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2019-11477
    CVE-2019-11478
    CVE-2019-11479
    CVE-2019-9213
    RHSA-2019:1480
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • kernel-rt earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0 is currently running
  • OR kernel-rt earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0 is set to boot up on next boot
  • AND
  • kernel-rt is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-core is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-core is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-debug is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-debug is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-debug-core is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-debug-core is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-debug-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-debug-kvm is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-debug-modules is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-devel is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-kvm is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-kvm is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-modules is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-modules is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • kernel-rt-modules-extra is earlier than 0:4.18.0-80.4.2.rt9.152.el8_0
  • AND kernel-rt-modules-extra is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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