Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-2110-01 - The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix: A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel-rt security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2110-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2110.html
Issue date: 2016-10-26
CVE Names: CVE-2016-5195 CVE-2016-7039
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1. Summary:
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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 Realtime (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
3. 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 race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem
handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory
mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write
access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their
privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-5195, Important)
* Linux kernel built with the 802.1Q/802.1ad VLAN(CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q) OR
Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network(CONFIG_VXLAN) with Transparent
Ethernet Bridging(TEB) GRO support, is vulnerable to a stack overflow
issue. It could occur while receiving large packets via GRO path; As an
unlimited recursion could unfold in both VLAN and TEB modules, leading to a
stack corruption in the kernel. (CVE-2016-7039, Important)
Red Hat would like to thank Phil Oester for reporting CVE-2016-5195.
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/):
1375944 - CVE-2016-7039 kernel: remotely triggerable unbounded recursion in the vlan gro code leading to a kernel crash
1384344 - CVE-2016-5195 kernel: mm: privilege escalation via MAP_PRIVATE COW breakage
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-327.36.3.rt56.238.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5195
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7039
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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