A kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2021:0558-01: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0558-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0558
Issue date: 2021-02-16
CVE Names: CVE-2020-14351 CVE-2020-25705 CVE-2020-29661
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1. Summary:
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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 each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an
use-after-free (CVE-2020-29661)
* kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free
(CVE-2020-14351)
* kernel: ICMP rate limiting can be used for DNS poisoning attack
(CVE-2020-25705)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* Final fixes + drop alpha_support flag requirement for Tigerlake
(BZ#1882620)
* OVS complains Invalid Argument on TCP packets going into conntrack
(BZ#1892744)
* BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code:
handler106/3082 (BZ#1893281)
* Icelake performance - add intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support
to RHEL-8 (BZ#1897183)
* [mlx5] IPV6 TOS rewrite flows are not getting offloaded in HW
(BZ#1897688)
* RHEL 8.3 SAS - multipathd fails to re-establish paths during controller
random reset (BZ#1900112)
* RHEL8.3 Beta - RHEL8.3 hangs on dbginfo.sh execution, crash dump
generated (mm-) (BZ#1903019)
* Win10 guest automatic reboot after migration in Win10 and WSL2 on AMD
hosts (BZ#1905084)
* block, dm: fix IO splitting for stacked devices (BZ#1905136)
* Failed to hotplug scsi-hd disks (BZ#1905214)
* PCI quirk needed to prevent GPU hang (BZ#1906516)
* RHEL8.2 - various patches to stabilize the OPAL error log processing and
the powernv dump processing (ESS) (BZ#1907301)
* pmtu not working with tunnels as bridge ports and br_netfilter loaded
(BZ#1907576)
* [ThinkPad X13/T14/T14s AMD]: Kdump failed (BZ#1907775)
* NFSv4 client improperly handles interrupted slots (BZ#1908312)
* NFSv4.1 client ignores ERR_DELAY during LOCK recovery, could lead to data
corruption (BZ#1908313)
* [Regression] RHEL8.2 - [kernel 148.el8] cpu (sys) time regression in SAP
HANA 2.0 benchmark benchInsertSubSelectPerformance (BZ#1908519)
* RHEL8: kernel-rt: kernel BUG at kernel/sched/deadline.c:1462!
(BZ#1908731)
* SEV VM hang at efi_mokvar_sysfs_init+0xa9/0x19d during boot (BZ#1909243)
* C6gn support requires "Ensure dirty bit is preserved across
pte_wrprotect" patch (BZ#1909577)
* [Lenovo 8.3 & 8.4 Bug] [Regression] No response from keyboard and mouse
when boot from tboot kernel (BZ#1911555)
* Kernel crash with krb5p (BZ#1912478)
* [RHEL8] Need additional backports for FIPS 800-90A DRBG entropy seeding
source (BZ#1912872)
* [Hyper-V][RHEL-8] Request to included a commit that adds a timeout to
vmbus_wait_for_unload (BZ#1913528)
* Host becomes unresponsive during stress-ng --cyclic test rcu: INFO:
rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: (BZ#1913964)
* RHEL8.4: Backport upstream RCU patches up to v5.6 (BZ#1915638)
* Missing mm backport to fix regression introduced by another mm backport
(BZ#1915814)
* [Hyper-V][RHEL-8]video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the
VRAM Edit (BZ#1917711)
* ionic 0000:39:00.0 ens2: IONIC_CMD_Q_INIT (40) failed: IONIC_RC_ERROR
(-5) (BZ#1918372)
* [certification] mlx5_core depends on tls triggering TAINT_TECH_PREVIEW
even if no ConnectX-6 card is present (BZ#1918743)
* kvm-rhel8.3 [AMD] - system crash observed while powering on virtual
machine with attached VF interfaces. (BZ#1919885)
Enhancement(s):
* [Mellanox 8.4 FEAT] mlx5: Add messages when VF-LAG fails to start
(BZ#1892344)
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1862849 - CVE-2020-14351 kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free
1894579 - CVE-2020-25705 kernel: ICMP rate limiting can be used for DNS poisoning attack
1906525 - CVE-2020-29661 kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source:
kernel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.src.rpm
aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
bpftool-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
bpftool-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64:
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
bpftool-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-debuginfo-4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
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7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14351
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25705
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29661
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
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