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(RHSA-2019:2869) Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Description

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. 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) Bug Fix(es): * fragmented packets timing out (BZ#1741131) * Backport TCP follow-up for small buffers (BZ#1741143)


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
RedHat 6 kernel-debuginfo 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-headers 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-abi-whitelists 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-debug-debuginfo 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 perf 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-doc 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 perf-debuginfo 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 python-perf 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-firmware 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-debug 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-devel 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 python-perf-debuginfo 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6
RedHat 6 kernel-debug-devel 2.6.32-504.81.2.el6

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