[RHSA-2015:1976-01] Moderate: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Moderate: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1976-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-6

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1976.html

Issue date: 2015-11-03

CVE Names: CVE-2014-8559

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1. Summary:

 

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and

add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security

impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the

References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2 - noarch, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux

operating system.

 

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's VFS subsystem handled file

system locks. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger a

deadlock in the kernel, causing a denial of service on the system.

(CVE-2014-8559, Moderate)

 

This update provides a build of the kernel-rt package for Red Hat

Enterprise MRG 2.5 that is layered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and fixes

the following issues:

 

* Unexpected completion is detected on Intel Ethernet x540

 

* Divide by zero error in intel_pstate_timer_func() [ inline s64

div_s64_rem() ]

 

* NFS Recover from stateid-type error on SETATTR

 

* pNFS RHEL 7.1 Data Server connection remains after umount due to lseg

refcount leak

 

* Race during NFS v4.0 recovery and standard IO.

 

* Fix ip6t_SYNPROXY for namespaces and connection delay

 

* synproxy window size and sequence number behaviour causes long connection

delay

 

* Crash in kmem_cache_alloc() during disk stress testing (using ipr)

 

* xfs: sync/backport to upstream v4.1

 

* iscsi_session recovery_tmo revert back to default when a path becomes

active

 

* read from MD raid1 can fail if read from resync target fails

 

* backport scsi-mq

 

* unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000237037 [zswap]

 

(BZ#1267373)

 

All kernel-rt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which

correct these issues and add this enhancement. The system must be rebooted

for this update to take effect.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

 

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

1159313 - CVE-2014-8559 kernel: fs: deadlock due to incorrect usage of rename_lock

1267373 - update the MRG 2.5.x 3.10 kernel-rt sources

 

6. Package List:

 

MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2:

 

Source:

kernel-rt-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.src.rpm

 

noarch:

kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.noarch.rpm

kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.noarch.rpm

 

x86_64:

kernel-rt-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.162.el6rt.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

 

7. References:

 

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8559

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.

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