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(RHSA-2019:2828) Important: kernel-rt security update

Description

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix(es): * A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host. (CVE-2019-14835)


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-kvm 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-core 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-kvm 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-modules 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-devel 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-devel 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-core 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-modules-extra 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debuginfo 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0
RedHat 8 kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra 4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0

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