6 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
65.5%
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
A race condition was found in the way asynchronous I/O and fallocate()
interacted when using the ext4 file system. A local, unprivileged user
could use this flaw to expose random data from an extent whose data blocks
have not yet been written, and thus contain data from a deleted file.
(CVE-2012-4508, Important)
An information leak flaw was found in the way Linux kernel’s device
mapper subsystem, under certain conditions, interpreted data written to
snapshot block devices. An attacker could use this flaw to read data from
disk blocks in free space, which are normally inaccessible. (CVE-2013-4299,
Moderate)
Red Hat would like to thank Theodore Ts’o for reporting CVE-2012-4508, and
Fujitsu for reporting CVE-2013-4299. Upstream acknowledges Dmitry Monakhov
as the original reporter of CVE-2012-4508.
This update also fixes the following bugs:
When the Audit subsystem was under heavy load, it could loop infinitely
in the audit_log_start() function instead of failing over to the error
recovery code. This would cause soft lockups in the kernel. With this
update, the timeout condition in the audit_log_start() function has been
modified to properly fail over when necessary. (BZ#1017898)
When handling Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs), the
stop_one_cpu_nowait() function could potentially be executed in parallel
with the stop_machine() function, which resulted in a deadlock. The MTRR
handling logic now uses the stop_machine() function and makes use of mutual
exclusion to avoid the aforementioned deadlock. (BZ#1017902)
Power-limit notification interrupts were enabled by default. This could
lead to degradation of system performance or even render the system
unusable on certain platforms, such as Dell PowerEdge servers. Power-limit
notification interrupts have been disabled by default and a new kernel
command line parameter “int_pln_enable” has been added to allow users to
observe these events using the existing system counters. Power-limit
notification messages are also no longer displayed on the console.
The affected platforms no longer suffer from degraded system performance
due to this problem. (BZ#1020519)
Package level thermal and power limit events are not defined as MCE
errors for the x86 architecture. However, the mcelog utility erroneously
reported these events as MCE errors with the following message:
kernel: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Package level thermal and power limit events are no longer reported as MCE
errors by mcelog. When these events are triggered, they are now reported
only in the respective counters in sysfs (specifically,
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<number>/thermal_throttle/). (BZ#1021950)
All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be
rebooted for this update to take effect.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | perf | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | perf-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | perf | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | perf-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | noarch | kernel-doc | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | kernel-doc-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.noarch.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | kernel-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | perf | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | perf-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | kernel-debug-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | python-perf-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | kernel-debuginfo-common-i686 | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | kernel-headers | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | kernel-headers-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | kernel-devel | < 2.6.32-220.45.1.el6 | kernel-devel-2.6.32-220.45.1.el6.i686.rpm |