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HistoryMay 12, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2015:0989) Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2015-05-1200:00:00
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9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

60.9%

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

  • A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s Intel
    AES-NI instructions optimized version of the RFC4106 GCM mode decryption
    functionality handled fragmented packets. A remote attacker could use this
    flaw to crash, or potentially escalate their privileges on, a system over a
    connection with an active AEC-GCM mode IPSec security association.
    (CVE-2015-3331, Important)

This update provides a build of the kernel-rt package for Red Hat
Enterprise MRG 2.5, which is layered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The kernel-rt sources have been updated to include fixes for the following
issues:

  • Audit subsystem not resolving path name on directory watches
  • audit watches do not track correctly after a rename
  • auditctl output is changed in RHEL 7
  • megaraid_sas: non-booting system with intel_iommu=on kernel parameter
  • GFS2: kernel NULL pointer dereference in gfs2_inplace_reserve
  • Crypto adapter cannot be brought online - affect all HW
  • crypto/seqiv.c: wrong check of return code from crypto_rng_get_bytes
  • Backport crypto: sha256_ssse3 - also test for BMI2
  • Null pointer at team_handle_frame+0x62/0x100 [team]
  • AES CTR x86_64 “by8” AVX optimization
  • Intel RDSEED - Fix for entropy counting
  • Intel SHA1 multi-buffer crypto implementation
  • Intel SHA1 AVX2 optimization support
  • mlx4_en: HW timestamp ends up in error queue of socket which does not
    have SO_TIMESTAMPING enabled

(BZ#1213945)

All kernel-rt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
correct these issues and add these enhancements. The system must be
rebooted for this update to take effect.

9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

60.9%