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RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2566-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2566
Issue date: 2019-08-27
CVE Names: CVE-2018-13405
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1. Summary:
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.5) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64
3. Description:
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear
SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)
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):
* [Dell EMC 7.6 BUG] File system corrupting with I/O Stress on H330 PERC on
AMD Systems (BZ#1698337)
* [RHEL7.7] Refined TSC clocksource calibration occasionally fails on some
SkyLake-X servers (BZ#1719780)
* Poor system performance from thundering herd of kworkers competing for
mddev->flush_bio ownership (BZ#1721533)
* fragmented packets timing out (BZ#1729412)
* After update to RHEL 7.6 (3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64) from 7.4, customer
has experienced multiple panics in kernel at BUG at
drivers/iommu/iova.c:859! (BZ#1731299)
* kernel build: speed up debuginfo extraction (BZ#1731463)
Enhancement(s):
* [Intel 7.6 FEAT] Graphics Kernel Driver v4.15 updates (BZ#1716309)
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1599161 - CVE-2018-13405 kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.5):
Source:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.5):
x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5):
Source:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.5):
ppc64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.41.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
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https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13405
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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