RHSA-2019:2566: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

First published: Tue Aug 27 2019(Updated: )

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)</li> 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.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> [Dell EMC 7.6 BUG] File system corrupting with I/O Stress on H330 PERC on AMD Systems (BZ#1698337)</li> <li> [RHEL7.7] Refined TSC clocksource calibration occasionally fails on some SkyLake-X servers (BZ#1719780)</li> <li> Poor system performance from thundering herd of kworkers competing for mddev-&gt;flush_bio ownership (BZ#1721533)</li> <li> fragmented packets timing out (BZ#1729412)</li> <li> After update to RHEL 7.6 (3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64) from 7.4, customer has experienced multiple panics in kernel at BUG at drivers/iommu/iova.c:859! (BZ#1731299)</li> <li> kernel build: speed up debuginfo extraction (BZ#1731463)</li> Enhancement(s):<br><li> [Intel 7.6 FEAT] Graphics Kernel Driver v4.15 updates (BZ#1716309)</li>

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