Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

RHEL 7 : kernel-alt (RHSA-2019:3217)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3217 advisory. The kernel-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x. Security Fixes: kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free...

kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free

It was found that the raw midi kernel driver does not protect against concurrent access which leads to a double realloc double free in sndrawmidiinputparams and sndrawmidioutputstatus which are part of sndrawmidiioctl handler in rawmidi.c file. A malicious local attacker could possibly use this f...