7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.975 High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling (CVE-2017-5754, x86 32-bit)
Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS (CVE-2018-8897)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Google Project Zero for reporting CVE-2017-5754 and Nick Peterson (Everdox Tech LLC) and Andy Lutomirski for reporting CVE-2018-8897.
Bug Fix(es):
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 6 | i686 | kernel-debug-devel | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | kernel-kdump | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | kernel-kdump-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | kernel-debug-devel | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | python-perf | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | python-perf-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | perf | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | perf-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | perf | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | perf-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | perf | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | perf-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | kernel-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | kernel-devel | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | kernel-debug-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-573.55.2.el6 | kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-573.55.2.el6.s390x.rpm |
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.975 High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%