A kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.

RHSA-2021:0878-01: 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-2021:0878-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0878
Issue date: 2021-03-16
CVE Names: CVE-2020-14351 CVE-2020-24394 CVE-2020-25212
CVE-2020-29661
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1. Summary:

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
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 each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6) - ppc64, ppc64le, 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: umask not applied on filesystem without ACL support
(CVE-2020-24394)

* kernel: TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code (CVE-2020-25212)

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):

* Security patch for CVE-2020-25212 breaks directory listings via 'ls' on
NFS V4.2 shares mounted with selinux enabled labels (BZ#1919144)

* Enable CI and changelog for GitLab workflow (BZ#1930931)

Enhancement(s):

* [Cavium 7.7 Feat] qla2xxx: Update to latest upstream. (BZ#1918534)

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
1869141 - CVE-2020-24394 kernel: umask not applied on filesystem without ACL support
1877575 - CVE-2020-25212 kernel: TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code
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 ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.6):

Source:
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.6):

x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):

Source:
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.noarch.rpm

ppc64:
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm

ppc64le:
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
bpftool-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.6):

ppc64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64.rpm

ppc64le:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-957.70.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

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  https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14351
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24394
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25212
  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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